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Responding to a student protest Friday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials announced that the district was changing its policy allowing students to participate activities after being charged with sexual assault.
Fire ants, Elvis Presley Lake, flash flood rescue: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: Alabama is turning to social media to encourage more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The Department of Public Health announced a TikTok contest to encourage young people to get vaccinated before the start of the school year. The contest is for people ages 13 to 29. To participate, contestants should submit a TikTok video showing themselves getting vaccinated or include a creative message explaining, “This is why I got vaccin...
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 o...
Renovations for CKSD's Fairview Middle School targeted for 2022 Jeff Graham, Kitsap Sun © File photo Central Kitsap School District. Fairview Middle School in the Central Kitsap School District opened in 1971 and began showing its age a long time ago. On Wednesday, school board members got the ball rolling on a plan to replace the 50-year-old East Bremerton school by approving a $65 million target budget. The action is a preliminary step to support planning efforts moving forward. “We could be starting construction in the summer of 2022,” CKSD assistant superintendent...
WFAE Hough High in Cornelius had 425 of its 2,500 students choose Full Remote Academy first semester. For second semester more than 1,100 have opted out of in-person classes. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is seeing an increase in students opting out of in-person classes for the second semester, especially in several large high schools. Numbers provided by CMS show just over 57,000 students enrolled in the Full Remote Academy for the semester that starts in January, compared with about 50,000 in the semester that's ending. That's 39% of all CMS students next semester. The increase is driven la...