Bo and Beth were yesterday years old when they realized that both of their moms had attended and graduated from the same high school in the same year!
WBT news reporter and show host "Breaking" Brett Jensen joins Good Morning BT talking about how Beth is like Mary Poppins, the shooting at Julius Chambers High school involving workers contracted by Charlotte Mecklenburg schools, how Brett handles women talking loudly into their cell phones in public places, and his love for fried chicken and waffles,
Saying “perfection can’t be the enemy of progress,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board members approved new student assignment plans that move tens of thousands of students in dozens of schools in the southern part of the county. Parents say the district relied too heavily on socio-economic status to balance schools and, in the process, blew up their […]
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board adopted new student assignment maps, impacting tens of thousands of kids and more-than two dozen schools. And while the district pays lip service to four guiding principles in developing the maps, the highest priority is quite obviously socio-economic status data. And, as it’s been for two decades, this SES data is […]
WBT News Reporter Brett Jensen joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman talking about Tomahawk steaks, the ongoing hunt for a new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools superintendent and changes in boundaries and feeder patterns to accommodate new CMS schools, and the upcoming North Carolina General Assembly vote on whether or not to override Governor Roy Cooper's veto of Senate Bill 20 which would restrict abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
A confidential report by the company that sold its body scanners to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools finds it doesn’t catch every kind of gun. Listen Here:
Breaking Brett Jensen from WBT News, joins Beth and Bo to discuss the new interim CMS superintendent who will be named today.
Pete’s Twitter fight with an education activist is a perfect exampled of the emotional blackmail used to constantly increase spending. Listen Here:
A recent study by the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that test scores across the country have dropped after the Covid-19 pandemic. NBC News has the story: The Covid-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of […]
The pandemic school lockdowns gave parents a new (and sometimes startling) view into what their kids’ classrooms were teaching. It prompted backlash over things like Critical Race Theory, Radical Gender Theory, and poor performance. And now, voters will be heading to the polls to register their opposition – or support. From the Carolina Journal: School […]
