WFAE Lisa Wright leads an activity for students with disabilities at the Camp CMS summer school at Paw Creek Elementary School.
As part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools anti-racism work, leaders of the special education department recently pulled data on diversity and disparities in the department. The results created a stir among employees, but Associate Superintendent Ann White says that s necessary to make change.
White, who heads the CMS Exceptional Children Department, presented the report in May to 200 or so staffers.
Ann White I’m sure what you’ve heard about is: The department is too white. The department is too female. We don’t have an appropriately diverse department, she said afterward. And that’s true.
‘Virtually Unstoppable’: Dawson County teacher and students honored by BOE for Exceptional Children’s Week The Board of Education building at 28 Main Street. - photo by Erica Schmidt
The Dawson County Board of Education celebrated the school system’s exceptional students and Black’s Mill Elementary School Teacher Jenny Disharoon this week, in honor of Exceptional Children’s Week.
At the board’s monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 14, BOE members heard a presentation from Director of Exceptional Students Todd Langley on Exceptional Children’s Week, which was held by the school system at the beginning of March.
Each year, the Georgia Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) sponsors Exceptional Children’s Week as part of its mission to improve education for children with exceptionalities or special needs, according to Langley.