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Board sets new date for full-time instruction for Cleveland County

Board votes for new floors, bleachers at two high schools.

Every regular meeting of the Cleveland County Board of Education features a time for the public to voice their thoughts or concerns. Usually, comments come in groups of two or three, but on Monday 19 people signed up to speak.   The sheer volume of commenters required the board to extend the public participation portion of the meeting from the usual 15-minute period to nearly an hour.   Speakers came prepared with printed letters and petitions to read or speeches to give.   At issue for most is the new board majority and its perceived rush to return students to full-time instruction as th...

When the board met earlier this week, neither item was on the agenda. The reason, according to board chairman Robert Queen, is because the board is not yet ready to tackle those issues. "I expect the attorney selection committee to have a recommendation for the board at the meeting on the 25th," said Queen in an email to The Shelby Star. "Display of the Ten Commandments is still with the Policy Committee that has not had time to meet yet.  There is no deadline for them to report." The latter issue has become a hot-button one of late, even drawing attention from national organizations focuse...

The administration building for Cleveland County Schools, Shelby, N.C. | Google Maps A North Carolina school board is exploring the possibility of putting Ten Commandments displays near the entrances at each of its school buildings, a possibility that has upset a secular legal group. The Cleveland County School Board first discussed the idea at its Dec. 14 board meeting, drawing support and criticism in the last week from opposing national First Amendment legal groups.  During the December meeting, board member Ron Humphries "made a motion to prepare, or have prepared, a policy requiring...