CHARLOTTE — Mecklenburg County is growing fast, leaving Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools with some big decisions they’ll need to make in order to keep up.
From school boundary shifts to capital projects and magnet program changes, your family is sure to be impacted.
Parents at the Irwin Academic Center -- an elementary school near Uptown Charlotte -- are worried the school may lose something they hold dear. Parents Ariel Gritter and Alissa Moses said in a presentation earlier this month, CMS officials slipped in the possibility of eliminating the school’s talent development program and replacing it with something else.
“I think it really kind of came upon us during this comment section that CMS began in January and we suddenly realized there was a major impact to our school,” Gritter said.
>> In the video at the top of the page, some parents tell education reporter Jonathan Lowe they feel blindsided by the proposal to uproot the magnet program at their beloved elementary school.
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