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CMS divides district Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools announced Wednesday, Feb. 14, an $8 million plan to decentralize into six geographic areas for the 2007-08 school year. Superintendent Peter Gorman unveiled the new CMS map at a press conference held at the Education Center boardroom. The decentralization, first called for by the school board in its Theory of Action for Improved Student Achievement, is intended to move decision-making and authority closer to the classroom by giving schools more flexibility. An area superintendent will lead each of the six areas, to be called “learning communities.” Area superintendents and their staffs will have firsthand knowledge of the learning communities they serve, and of those communities’ needs, Gorman said. See next week’s issue for complete coverage on CMS’s decentralization plan and how it will affect area parents and students.
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