Mecklenburg County commissioners have cited low-performing schools and persistent racial gaps on test scores when they voted to withhold $56 million from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. They say they want to force CMS to produce a better school improvement plan. CMS leaders, meanwhile, have accused the county of mangling facts andtrying to take an oversight role that legally falls to the school board.
Some of the week's top stories: The Charlotte area looks back on the year since George Floyd was killed by police, North Carolina marks 1 million COVID-19 cases as residents mark the first holiday weekend with no major restrictions, and a three-part special examines the impact of the pandemic on a local elementary school.
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Oakdale third grader Treyson Rodriguez, who spent most of the year learning from home, took his first End of Grade exams this month.
Third in a three-part series looking at how the pandemic played out in one Charlotte elementary school. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
At Cathy Moore’s home in northwest Charlotte, five children spent most of this year learning from home. All five are students at Oakdale Elementary School, from kindergarten through fourth grade. And they share space with a baby born during the pandemic.
As crazy as it was juggling five kids, with their iPads, laptops and earphones, Moore thought staying remote was safest for her family. But when North Carolina gave families one last chance to bring their kids back in person in April, Moore took it.
In this second of a three-part series on how the pandemic played out for students, educators and families at Oakdale Elementary School in northwest Charlotte, WFAE education reporter Ann Doss Helms looks at hybrid instruction. Juggling remote and in-person students while handling tech glitches and monitoring COVID-19 safety is a lot to handle.
WFAE Students trickle back to Oakdale Elementary on Feb. 15, when students returned to in-person classes for the second time.
This is the first in a three-part series looking at how the pandemic played out in one elementary school in northwest Charlotte.
It’s Feb. 15, the second first day of school in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools or maybe the third, depending on how you count.
Principal Mary Weston has her faculty at Oakdale Elementary on Zoom. They’re in their classrooms and she’s in the office giving them a pep talk about starting in-person classes again. Let me hear your voices. Good morning, good morning, good morning! Weston says.