Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools superintendent James Pughsley is retiring at the end of the school year, an outcome that is not exactly a surprise. Pughsley’s leadership style, or that thereof, has been under fire for several months now.
The school board has two members who have called for a new top administrator for the system, and several more lean that way in private. In addition, the $500,000 private study group put together to make suggestions about how to improve CMS had all the makings of a classic “gold watch” committee that would hint that Pughsley should move on.
Stay tuned to see if this news makes reform of CMS easier, or turns out to be a distraction from the bigger goal of improving the system.
