The Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education meets Tuesday night in Charlotte, with an agenda that includes a public hearing and vote on the first of what could eventually be $100 million in proposed budget cuts for 2011-12. Read the full story
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CMS board plans hearing & vote on budget cuts
Posted on 24 January 2011.
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New Catholic HS will have latest tech; more students needed
Posted on 22 January 2011.
Daniel Dolan speaks to prospective Christ the King High School families Thursday in Mooresville (Karen Cimino Wilson/DavidsonNews.net)
By KAREN CIMINO WILSON
DavidsonNews.net
MOORESVILLE – The proposed Christ the King Catholic High School, which hopes to open in August in Huntersville, has applications from about 50 prospective freshmen, but needs 50 more to ensure it can open this fall. Meanwhile, organizers at a meeting Thursday said the school plans to incorporate the latest technology available, including issuing computers to students. Read the full story
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Davidson IB wins 4th straight N.C. Future City title
Posted on 15 January 2011.
Davidson IB Middle School's N.C. champion Future City team accepted their award. From left: adviser Ruth Swallow, Juan Williams, competition co-coordinator Chris Kreider of NCDOT, Nick Macri, Jimmy Haberburger, Anika Agarwal, Brandon Lang, coach Jay Hager, Emma Boraks, Dane Horna, Sharad Wertheimer, and co-coordinator David Simpson. Not pictured: Ian Magee. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)
RALEIGH – Davidson IB Middle School has done it again. For the fourth straight year, a Davidson IB team has won the North Carolina Regional National Engineers Week Future City championship. The team was crowned after a day of competition against 20 other teams from around the state Saturday, Jan. 15, at North Carolina State University. Read the full story
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Closings were only a start; CMS to slash 1,500 jobs
Posted on 12 January 2011.
DOWNLOADS BELOW: school board presentation and bell schedule changes.
By KAREN CIMINO WILSON
DavidsonNews.net
The planned closing of schools such as Davidson IB Middle was just the beginning of the budget-cutting for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools for next school year. The district now says it must cut $100 million, and it plans to do so in part with more than 1,500 layoffs and bus and bell schedule changes.
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Back to normal? CMS on 2-hr delay Thur.; trash pickups resume
Posted on 12 January 2011.
Time to brush off the snow. A bus sits silently during another snow day Wednesday outside Community School of Davidson on Griffith Street. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)
Updated Thursday 12:38 p.m.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools will be open on Thursday, Jan. 13, but with a two hour delay, the district said Wednesday. And it will be a normal day Friday. Other local schools also have announced their plans for Thursday. In Cabarrus County, kids will be off Thursday, but make up missed days the next two Saturdays.
Davidson trash pickups will be Thursday.
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Snow day 3: Schools closed Wed., too
Posted on 11 January 2011.
Updated Wed., 12:31 p.m.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools announced that schools will be closed again Wednesday because of the winter weather. Other area public, private and charter schools also will be closed. Some other organizations, including the YMCA, have announced late openings.
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CMS magnet school lottery opens Friday
Posted on 06 January 2011.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools will open its annual lottery for magnet school seats on Friday, and the district is hosting a series of events to help parents learn about the programs. Meanwhile, Community School of Davidson hosts screenings next week for “Race to Nowhere,” a documentary about schools and teen “achievement culture.” Pine Lake Prep is hosting an open house on Sunday and there are seats left for John Rosemond‘s lecture at McKinney Academy on Jan. 18.
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Obituary: Mary Stewart Bradford Bost Covington
Posted on 04 January 2011.
Mary Stewart Covington
Mary Stewart Covington of The Pines at Davidson died Monday morning, Jan. 3, at her home. She was 81.
She was born in Scotland County on Jan. 21, 1929 , the daughter of Robert Roland Covington and Elizabeth McAlpine Gordon.
Educated at Peace College and Flora McDonald College, she was a graduate of Queens College. She was a first grade teacher at Davidson Elementary School for many years, where her creativity and energy inspired innovations in the teaching of young children. Her classroom was always a vortex of learning, fed by the unusual elements she brought into the environment. The classroom was home to many—among them a one-eyed flying squirrel, a rabbit, and a tank full of fish. She visited the home of every student she ever taught and worked tirelessly to ensure their success. Read the full story
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