Waddell Language Academy will return to its original status as a high school in 2022.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board will get an update on four new schools opening in August of 2022, including a proposal that has some South Mecklenburg High parents worried about the status of their language program. Olympic High relief school under construction.
Two new high schools are slated to open in southwest Charlotte that year. One, on York Road in Mecklenburg County s southwestern tip, will be a neighborhood school designed to relieve crowding at Olympic High.
The other will take the place of Waddell Language Academy, about 11 miles closer in on Nations Ford Road. It was built as a high school about 20 years ago, then converted to a K-8 language immersion school during the Great Recession. After renovations to restore Waddell for high school use, it s slated to become a magnet school, with the programs to be determined.
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Clinics in underserved Charlotte communities aim to give everyone a shot
Two vaccine clinics over the weekend reached thousands of people in parts of Charlotte that are often overlooked and underserved. Author: Tanya Mendis Updated: 4:14 PM EDT March 14, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. The focus shifted to communities that are often overlooked Saturday as the two largest health care systems in the Charlotte area hosted vaccine clinics that put thousands of shots into arms.
The campus of Johnson C. Smith University on the west side of Charlotte was the host site for one of those clinics Saturday and will again be home to a clinic on Sunday.
For teachers, the riot is a tough subject to discuss
Laura Meckler, Donna St. George, Hannah Natanson and Perry Stein, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2021
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David Stewart went to sleep Wednesday night wondering how he would explain the chaos that had transpired in the nation s capital that day, only 10 miles from Alexandria, Va., where he teaches elementary school.
He decided to let his fourth-graders bring it up, and it didn t take much to open the floodgates, even over Zoom. Students said they were upset, angry and scared. Some talked about how they were sad because they saw on TV that Americans, people who live in this country, are breaking the windows of a government building. How people were walking out of buildings with blood on their faces, said Stewart, 39.