In this second of a three-part series on how the pandemic played out for students, educators and families at Oakdale Elementary School in northwest Charlotte, WFAE education reporter Ann Doss Helms looks at hybrid instruction. Juggling remote and in-person students while handling tech glitches and monitoring COVID-19 safety is a lot to handle.
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Mecklenburg County Commissioner Vilma Leake voted in favor of withholding $56 million from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools until the district presents a detailed plan to close achievement gaps.
Mecklenburg County Commissioners on Wednesday stood by their plan to withhold $56 million from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools until the district releases a detailed plan on how to close achievement gaps among students.
During straw votes on the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, commissioners voted 6-2 in favor of withholding the money.
George Dunlap, Pat Cotham, Leigh Altman, Vilma Leake, Mark Jerrell and Elaine Powell all voted in favor of keeping the money back. Susan Rodriguez-McDowell and Laura Meier voted no. Ella Scarborough didn’t attend.
WFAE Students trickle back to Oakdale Elementary on Feb. 15, when students returned to in-person classes for the second time.
This is the first in a three-part series looking at how the pandemic played out in one elementary school in northwest Charlotte.
It’s Feb. 15, the second first day of school in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools or maybe the third, depending on how you count.
Principal Mary Weston has her faculty at Oakdale Elementary on Zoom. They’re in their classrooms and she’s in the office giving them a pep talk about starting in-person classes again. Let me hear your voices. Good morning, good morning, good morning! Weston says.
Waddell Language Academy will return to its original status as a high school in 2022.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board will get an update on four new schools opening in August of 2022, including a proposal that has some South Mecklenburg High parents worried about the status of their language program. Olympic High relief school under construction.
Two new high schools are slated to open in southwest Charlotte that year. One, on York Road in Mecklenburg County s southwestern tip, will be a neighborhood school designed to relieve crowding at Olympic High.
The other will take the place of Waddell Language Academy, about 11 miles closer in on Nations Ford Road. It was built as a high school about 20 years ago, then converted to a K-8 language immersion school during the Great Recession. After renovations to restore Waddell for high school use, it s slated to become a magnet school, with the programs to be determined.