Stinson-Wesley

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board Members on Thursday voted to appoint Rev. Amelia Stinson-Wesley as the board representative for District 6. A United Methodist minister and Pineville Elementary parent, Rev. Stinson-Wesley was one of 12 candidates vying for the seat and will be sworn in Jan. 10.

She fills the seat left by board member Tim Morgan, who on Nov. 8 was elected as one of the three At-Large board members.

In her application, Ms. Stinson-Wesley said:

“I am committed to public education; I believe that our schools, particularly our public ones are where basic citizenship is fostered. I am committed to this community and its future; with the impending selection of a new school superintendent, I want to be involved in this community and the decisions that affect my children, our children collectively and the future for us all.”

Ms. Stinson-Wesley founded World Connections for Women in 1998 and serves as its director. She holds a master of divinity from Duke University and a bachelor of arts degree from Meredith College. Also, she has been a member of the Mecklenburg County Child Protection team, a member and chairperson of the Burke County Task Force on Domestic Violence and a member of the Burke County Child Fatality/Child Protection teams.

District 6 includes Pineville, Matthews, Mint Hill and parts of southeast Charlotte.

Community members interested in applying for the District 6 seat on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education must do so by Monday, Jan. 2. Candidates must be registered voters in District 6, in the southeastern part of the county.

As the governing body for one of the largest school districts, the CMS school board has five key responsibilities:

A map of the CMS districts. Click to view larger, as a PDF. (CMS image)

• Hiring/firing the superintendent/CEO;
• Establishing school district policy;
• Determining the annual operating and capital budgets;
• Approving student assignment boundaries; and,
• Overseeing the management of the school district’s major systems, including budget and finance, curriculum and instruction, personnel and auxiliary services.

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The 13 candidates for 3 at-large seats on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School board will appear at an interactive forum Wednesday night at CPCC in Charlotte. Sponsored by our news partner WFAE-FM and the nonpartisan group MeckEd, the event also will be streamed live over the internet and reported via Twitter. Details on our ELECTION 2011 page»

Also on the page today: Meet the candidates: 3 forums over next 2 weeks – Three upcoming events will give Davidson residents a chance to meet the candidates for Mayor and Town Board.

Davidson Day School has hired Wes Wehunt as the new head of lower and middle school. Also in this column, the CMS School Board meets Wednesday night at the Government Center in Charlotte to discuss the process for selecting the district’s next superintendent, and CMS plans a reception to honor its “Teachers of the Year.” Read the full story

SOURCE: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education approved the 2012-13 school calendar at its April 12 meeting. The Board voted to approve the alternative calendar presented by Superintendent Peter Gorman during the meeting. Read the full story

With extra county funding unlikely, board will ask state legislators to OK furloughs to save teachers’ jobs.

By ANN DOSS HELMS
The Charlotte Observer

After rejecting pay cuts and school closings, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday pinned its 2010-11 budget-cutting hopes on the state legislature, hoping to get permission to furlough employees and tinker with the school calendar.

The drastic measures discussed at the budget meeting would be on top of – or possibly instead of – the 600 teacher layoffs the board authorized last week. Read the full story

Rhonda Lennon, speaking at a candidate forum in Davidson.

Updated Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.

Rhonda Lennon of Huntersville is the new District 1 representative on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board.

“I’m so excited,” she told DavidsonNews.net Wednesday morning, after staying up until 2 a.m. to follow election results and then getting back up at 6 a.m. to pack her kids off to school.

Lennon gathered just under half the votes in the three-way race to represent northern Mecklenburg County on the school board.  She called her 49.81 percent win “close enough” to her goal of 50 percent.  She defeated Robin Bradford, who came in second with 30.7 percent of the vote, and Gail Summerskill, who was a distant third, for the seat held by Larry Gauvreau, who did not seek re-election.  Ms. Lennon won 19 of the 29 precincts in District 1, including both in Davidson.

Ms. Lennon said she received a congratulatory call from Davidson Mayor John Woods, and also had a post-election phone conversation with Ms. Bradford, who was the top vote-getter in 10 precincts, all at the edges of the city of Charlotte.  Read the full story

Davidson Town Board Candidates

DavidsonNews.net 2009 Voters Guide

Voters within the Davidson town limits on Tuesday will elect a new 5-person Town Board from among eight candidates and also choose from among three candidates for the Charlotte Mecklenburg school board seat in District 1, which includes Davidson. (Voters outside the town limits vote in the school board race only.)

Town Board: Below, we link you to profiles of the eight town board candidates.

School board: Three are running for the District 1 school board seat, currently held by Larry Gauvreau, who is retiring.  See below for links to Laurie Dennis’s profiles of the three.

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