WFAE Lisa Wright leads an activity for students with disabilities at the Camp CMS summer school at Paw Creek Elementary School.
As part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools anti-racism work, leaders of the special education department recently pulled data on diversity and disparities in the department. The results created a stir among employees, but Associate Superintendent Ann White says that s necessary to make change.
White, who heads the CMS Exceptional Children Department, presented the report in May to 200 or so staffers.
Ann White I’m sure what you’ve heard about is: The department is too white. The department is too female. We don’t have an appropriately diverse department, she said afterward. And that’s true.