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CMS EQUITY REPORTS
The CMS Commitment statement refers to Diversity Initiatives with these words:
"Equity Committee - The
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (BOE) formed the Equity Committee in
November 2002. The board entrusted this appointed group of citizens from
throughout the community with the responsibility of advising the BOE and CMS
administration on equity issues within CMS." Full
text.
At its meeting Tuesday, July 27, 2010, CMS dropped the checklist approach to
tracking equity that was built into the annual reports below. As reported by the
Charlotte Observer, "The new policy allows the board to continue the Equity
Committee, but does not require the existence of such a panel. Most members said
they want to create a new citizen advisory panel with a better-defined mission."
See the
Observer story.
In the months that followed, the board has not reconstituted the Equity Committee. Its budget cuts have fallen heavily on many of the equity initiatives tracked by the Committee.
As of March 2011, the CMS Commitment cited above remains on the CMS website. But the board's focus on placing resources where they are needed to help all children achieve their potential is over. The board's focus on the issue lasted from 2002 to 2010. And the goal, of course, was never achieved.
Staff Reports
The CMS administrative staff has also issued reports detailing progress against a number of standards set by the school board. Beginning in 2009, there was a report, a separate summary, then then a large number of separate files containing data.
In the 2009 listing, the first link is to the file as it was originally filed on the CMS site. The link under the word "cached" will bring up a copy of each item that is stored on this site against the event that the link into the CMS site is broken by CMS or is otherwise unavailable.
2010
All links to individual files are on the CMS website at this page
Expenditures 2008-09 by School Type and by School
Library Holdings - Qualitative
Library Holdings - Quantitative
CoCurricular Offerings: Middle Schools
CoCurricular Offerings: High Schools by Administrative Zone:
2009
Main report dated 1-27-09 cached
Summary, released 1-27-09, dated 1-27-08 cached
Co-Curricular Activities 2008-09 (Leveled Reports)
Elementary FOCUS
cached
Elementary NonFOCUS
cached
Middle Schools
cached
High Schools
cached
Faculty 2008-2009
Library Books
Qualitative Standard Chart, all schools, 2007-2008
cached
Quantitative Standard Chart, all schools, 2007-2008
cached
Personnel Matrix, all schools, 2008-2009
cached
Per Pupil Expenditures 2007-2008 (Leveled Reports)
Exceptional Children and Alternative Education cached
Elementary Composite
cached
Middle School
cached
Middle School Composite
cached
High School
cached
High School Composite
cached
2008
Staff report released 1-22-08
Equity Committee Reports
The CMS Equity Committee, appointed by the school board, has issued a number of reports. Among them:
2010 Annual Report to the Board Jan. 15, 2010 (marked Eighth Annual)
Appendix on ESL
Appendix on Parent Advocates
Appendix on AP Course Comparisons
Appendix on AP courses offered, by school, 2009-10
The board received this report Feb. 9, 2010. Board minutes from that session summarize discussion.
2009 Annual Report to the Board Jan. 15, 2009 (marked Seventh Annual) cached
2008 Annual Report to the Board cached
2007 Annual Report to the Board cached
2006 Report to the Board on Task Force Recommendations cached
2006 Annual Report to the Board (fulltext) cached
2006 Annual Report to the Board (PowerPoint) cached
2005 Report to the Board on Student Assignment cached
2004 Annual Report to the Board cached
2003 Annual Report to the board cached
Click above for archived editions of Educate!, the community journal on eduction in Charlotte-Mecklenburg published by the Fellowship between September 2000 and September 2005.
These volumes have a special focus on Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
John Charles Boger & Gary Orfield
(eds.), School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back? (2005). ISBN:
0807829536; 0807856134.
Davison M. Douglas, Reading, Writing and Race: The Desegregation of the
Charlotte Schools (1995). ISBN: 0807822167; 0807845299.
Frye Gaillard, The Dream Long Deferred (1988). ISBN: 0807817945; 0807842230.
Thomas W. Hanchett, Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban
Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975 (1998). ISBN: 0807846775.
Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South
(2006). ISBN: 9780691092553; 0691092559.
Gary Orfield & Susan E. Eaton, Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of
Brown v. Board of Education (1996). ISBN: 1565844017.
Peter
Sacks, Tearing Down the Gates - Confronting the Class Divide in
American Education (2007)ISBN:
978-0-520-24588-4."It helped me focus on inequities that poor
children face in public education. It really goes after middle and upper
middle class families who manipulate schools and districts to fulfill their
needs at the expense of the kids who need the most and who are not getting
it. Highly recommended" -- Jim Henderlite.
Stephen Smith, Boom for Whom? Education, Desegregation, and Development in
Charlotte (2004). ISBN: 0791459853; 0791459861.