Charlotte Updates-Living in Charlotte Real Estate etc
November 16th, 2009 Categories: About Charlotte
It’s been a while since I captured the local headlines~ curated them for importance. Here are a few:
Duke Energy HQ Charlotte NC
Duke Energy HQ Charlotte NC
Anthony Foxx the New Mayor, D’s Advance
The election last week left Democrats firmly in control of City Council, with former (D) Councilman Anthony Foxx becoming Charlotte’s Mayor, and adding seats for an 8-3 voting margin in the Council. After 14 years of (R) Pat McGrory, a centrist Republican, this is a minor switch leftward, a center -right to a center-left proposition. Unlike the national scene, the election was about issues and approaches to governing by two respected candidates.
CMS Superintendent Gorman Announces Pay For Performance for CMS Teachers
In a first in the state move, Superintendent Pete Gorman of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools announced that with in 4 years, the teaches will move from their current pay structure, which rewards advanced degrees with higher pay, to a pay for performance model still to be worked out. Knowing there will be opposition, he plans to work with teachers to arrive at sensible performances standards.
This is good news. There is no correlation between teachers with advanced degrees and quality of outcome for students. None. Nationally, Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan recently called US schools “drop-out factories”… maybe he is right, 1/3 of CMS students won’t graduate, and that isn’t acceptable.
Rt 485 to Complete 5 Years Ahead of Time
Governor Perdue came to Charlotte last week to follow up on a campaign promise announcing that the final leg of Rt 485 connecting Rt 77 and Rt 84 with 8 lanes. It will begin next year, 5 years ahead of time, completing by 2014 or 2015… without delaying Independence Blvd and the widening of I-85, two other long overdue Charlotte road projects.
There is more, I’ll add to this later in the week, have to go sell some real estate.
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