According to U.S. News and World Report, four of the top 10 high schools in North Carolina are charter schools. Interestingly, only one Wake County school, Wake NCSU STEM Early…
U.S. News and World Report released their annual list of top high schools. The following are the top 20 high schools in North Carolina: Raleigh Charter High School (Charter school)…
Either that or longtime Observer sports reporter Stan Olson doubled back to edit himself on his final blog post yesterday afternoon. The original version of Olson’s post, recovered via Bing…
The body of this Jim Morrill et al story was much more nuanced than the 30 McCrory precincts powered Foxx victory hed implied. The 30 city precincts that switched from…
Stan Olson must be working too hard. In the course of explaining a blog list of the top athletes in county history Olson told commenters to can talk of Antwan…
I guarantee the topic of conversation around the kitchen tables of CMS teacher households this morning is the amazing salary creep at the top of CMS. Ann Doss Helms details…
CMS is stumbling again. This time it is school buses. CMS does not have enough drivers for afternoon routes and the district is warning that some kids may have to…
Here’s the challenge, folks. Find any business entity anywhere that is carrying an “administrator at large” on the books at $133,000 a year. Yet that is exactly what Peter Gorman…
Wow, a report comes out telling everyone the obvious — Eastland Mall is dead and needs to be buried — and immediately the blame starts flying around Charlotte. Mayor Pat…
We break into our all-transit, all-the-time coverage to note that new, official graduation rates for West Charlotte seem, well, fishy. To be blunt, a graduation rate of 81 percent for…
This just in, as part of the new CMS decentralization plan, Providence High School will cease to exist. I guess. All I know is that Providence is not mentioned anywhere…
Thank goodness a student at Providence High was not seriously injured after being struck by a car along Highway 51 this morning. But damn the pretentious crap flowing from CMS…