Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is moving toward adopting its 2026-27 budget, even as the lack of a statewide spending plan continues to create uncertainty.
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Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper and his wife, Nicole Tepper, are donating $250,000 to UNC Charlotte to support women’s athletics at the university.
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The Royals will play their first-ever Division I NCAA Tournament game when they take on No. 2 seed Purdue in the first round. To talk more about how Queens got to this big moment, the school’s Director of Athletics, Cherie Swarthout, joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry.
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After the threat of severe weather closed Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools on Monday, the district says it still doesn’t plan to use any make-up days or reschedule missed instructional time.
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Math I was the focus of last week’s CMS school board meeting, giving us the latest look at progress toward the goal.
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Middle and high school basketball players from North and South Carolina recently gathered at the historic Second Ward High School Gymnasium in uptown Charlotte for a showcase that blended competition and education.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education is moving to formally dissolve its Office of Compliance and Ethics, which was created in 2019 after the ousting of two superintendents in five years and scrutiny over a contract under former Superintendent Clayton Wilcox.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will be closed Monday due to forecasted storms, the district said Sunday night.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education voted Tuesday night to split Governor’s Village STEM Academy from a K-8 school into two separate schools — an elementary school and a middle school.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is finalizing its 2027-28 academic calendar after receiving more than 20,000 responses to a survey seeking feedback on two options.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has identified $37.1 million in needs this budget cycle, including a proposed average 5% increase of the local teacher supplement, which would cost around $8.8 million.
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Gov. Josh Stein, Senate Leader Phil Berger and Speaker of the House Destin Hall announced the plan in a joint press release. The North Carolina Association of Educators is not convinced that a new committee is what public schools need.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board is set to meet Tuesday night, and school budget officials are set to give a presentation on the 2026-27 budget.