Education
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Mom Demands Charter School Address Son’s Special Needs Struggles
Danielle Farmer will always remember April 25, 2023, as the day her son first voiced suicidal ideations to her. It happened on the way home from Lake Norman Charter Elementary School (LNCES), where the 8-year-old had spent the last half of his second-grade school year and nearly his entire third-grade…
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CRTV Lab Serves Creativity and Coffee on Charlotte’s West Side
Beneath a church on a quiet street lined with bungalow-style homes and mature trees in Charlotte’s historic Camp Greene neighborhood, lies a new creative space and coffee shop buzzing with possibilities. With the support of more than 30 corporate and community partners, local nonprofit Do Greater Charlotte has transformed the…
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CMS Board Gives Signs of 2023 Priorities with New Committees
During its first meeting of the new year on Jan. 10, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education acknowledged how critical 2023 could be for the district’s future, authorizing two new ad hoc committees with ambitious goals and setting a timeline for the search and appointment of a new superintendent. The…
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Anti-Abortion Protesters Allegedly Harass, Assault UNC Charlotte Students
On Oct. 26, an anti-abortion group called Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) appeared on campus at UNC Charlotte, comparing abortion to genocide while displaying graphic images of unborn fetuses. While this is not the first time such a group has appeared on campus at the university, some of this group’s reported…
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Emerald School Continues to Expand its Services in East Charlotte
When I first visited the Emerald School of Excellence in summer 2019, founder Mary Ferreri was puttering around the hallways of the building, located on the campus of Memorial United Methodist Church on Central Avenue, doing some last-minute cleaning in the lead-up to a ribbon-cutting event she had planned for…
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NC Supreme Court Hears $785M Leandro School Funding Case
North Carolina’s highest court heard oral arguments in a case that could send $785 million to state agencies and onto public school students across the state. The Leandro case, which was first filed in 1994, involves the right to access a sound, basic education — a right that the North…
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