CMS Board To Decide On Whether Four Schools Go Year-Round
Four CMS schools that serve pre-k through 8th graders could move to a year-round calendar next year in an effort to boost learning. The CMS school board plans to vote on the proposal tonight. All kids...
View ArticleProject LIFT To Distribute Free And Discounted Computers To Students
This week about 2,200 elementary school kids will be getting free laptops. It’s part of the Project LIFT effort to boost learning at nine schools on Charlotte’s west side. These laptops are made for...
View ArticleTwenty-Six Revamped Teaching Jobs With Higher Pay Attract 708 Applicants
Some new kinds of teaching jobs with four CMS schools in west Charlotte have attracted a lot of interest. The jobs are a blend of mentoring and teaching and they come with a big salary bump.
View ArticleSummer School That Goes Beyond The Basics In Project LIFT Schools
Summer school brings to mind kids hunched over desks in humid classrooms, trying to make up classes they failed. It’s not the place to be. But across the country summer school is undergoing some big...
View ArticleFathers Drop Kids Off At Schools
Students at nine schools in west Charlotte got special escorts to their classrooms today. Fathers, grandfathers and uncles dropped children off at school as part of a national effort called the Million...
View ArticleProject LIFT Schools Hiring More Star Teachers With New Duties, Higher Pay
Several Project LIFT schools on Charlotte’s west side are trying to fill about twenty highly-paid teaching jobs. Those teachers won’t have their own classes but will rotate between classrooms, coach...
View ArticleProject LIFT Schools Embrace New Teaching Method: No Nonsense Nurturing
Teachers are learning a new way to teach students in the nine Project LIFT schools in CMS. Directions are often scripted and praise is kept to a minimum in an effort to manage classroom behavior. It’s...
View ArticleStrategy Of CMS' Project LIFT Turned On Head
Project LIFT leaders heard a lot of numbers Wednesday about the nine, struggling CMS schools in west Charlotte they’re trying to improve. Test scores are nowhere near the goal they set for this time...
View ArticleProject LIFT Plans To Extend Work For At Least A Sixth Year
Project LIFT plans to continue working with West Charlotte High School and the schools that feed into it for at least a sixth year. The schools have seen only slight improvements in test scores since...
View ArticleGood, Bad News In Project LIFT Results
Some ambitious goals were set five years ago to help nine struggling schools in west Charlotte. An initiative called Project LIFT was launched. Project LIFT received $55 million in private money to...
View ArticleProject LIFT Plans To Cut Extra Days At Two Schools
Two Project LIFT schools tried something of an experiment a few years ago. They added extra days to the school calendar to help students learn, but those will likely be cut next year.
View Article13 CMS Schools Seek Flexibility Similar to Charters
Thirteen Charlotte elementary schools are hoping to get some of the same flexibility as charter schools. It could be granted under the state’s Restart initiative, an effort to turn around academically...
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