May 27 County leaders this week endorsed a funding strategy for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools that's split the community since early May, spawning a series of fiery meetings and public hearings that led to no compromise. The school district typically receives one-third of its $1.7 billion budget from Mecklenburg County. But county leaders, displeased with persistently poor outcomes and low .
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May 25, 2021
CHARLOTTE, NC – A private meeting Tuesday did little to bring Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools and Mecklenburg county commissioners closer together when it comes to the budget.
Earlier this month County Manager Dena Diorio unveiled a plan to withhold $56 million dollars from CMS until the school system provided more details on how they would close the achievement gap and improve racial inequities. School officials say it will only hurt the students.
“The work is too important to be distracted,” said Superintendent Earnest Winston.
Winston was speaking publicly for the first time since having his credentials questioned by the county commission chairman.
Updated: May 26, 2021, 9:49 am
From a medieval walled garden serving Arbroath Abbey, to the first residential art school in Scotland, the site at Hospitalfield has been through many changes.
Now, in its latest incarnation, Hospitalfield House reopens with new gardens, sculpture installations throughout the site, a new glasshouse café, and the Victorian fernery fully restored.
This is the first phase in the £11m Future Plan – a five-year project to transform the house and the site.
It’s one that Hospitalfield director Lucy Byatt hopes will encourage people from Arbroath and beyond can come to enjoy the surroundings of Patrick Allan Fraser’s 19th-century Arts and Crafts masterpiece.
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Mecklenburg County Commissioner Vilma Leake voted in favor of withholding $56 million from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools until the district presents a detailed plan to close achievement gaps.
Mecklenburg County Commissioners on Wednesday stood by their plan to withhold $56 million from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools until the district releases a detailed plan on how to close achievement gaps among students.
During straw votes on the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, commissioners voted 6-2 in favor of withholding the money.
George Dunlap, Pat Cotham, Leigh Altman, Vilma Leake, Mark Jerrell and Elaine Powell all voted in favor of keeping the money back. Susan Rodriguez-McDowell and Laura Meier voted no. Ella Scarborough didn’t attend.