This is a tiny step forward for CMS. One that comes not co-inky-dinky wrapped with a request for $28 million more from the county. Still, allowing principals a tad more say over how they structure classrooms and budget time at the fringes of the mandated course of study — this is a good start. Start.
Also needed is more say for principals in how money gets spent and — for high schools especially — which disruptive students get barred from class. The Ed Center bureaucracy too often interposes itself between principal and student when the student has been chronically disruptive and suspended multiple times to no effect. That must end.
CMS $1.3 billion budget with $370 million expected from Mecklenburg County — well, that’ll be fun. If commissioners do not whack that request down, they’ll be staring at a property tax hike in an election year.
Good times.
