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Front Porch Charlotte

Advocacy resources for educating our children

The way forward for the school board

Arthur Griffin explores three challenges facing the CMS board and offers ways forward.

Filed Under: Change

PROJECT LIFT: ‘The soft bigotry of low expectations’

June 11, 2017 This morning, the Charlotte Observer published a pair of articles under the headline, “Two Charlotte leaders debate: Has Project LIFT been a success or failure?” Dr Ophelia Garmon-Brown wrote one. I wrote the other. Below is the unedited version of what I wrote. Below the text are tables and charts of the […]

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Diploma ‘endorsements’: Making a case for their use in tracking student success

Feb. 14, 2017 Arthur Griffin believes that a little-known N.C. tool already in place might give an additional and useful picture of whether CMS is preparing all students for a productive future. The tool would be aggregate data on diploma “endorsements.” The endorsement stickers that are attached to individual N.C. students’ graduation diplomas are awarded to […]

Filed Under: Change

Absurd and cunning

Feb. 9, 2017 By Arthur Griffin Last week, I attended the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum meeting. The guest speaker made several outlandish allegations without regard for the truth. I understand that the Republican members of the North Carolina General Assembly need a black face on some of its backward legislation, but what happened last Tuesday […]

Filed Under: Change

Affordable Housing or Workforce Housing?

Jan. 19, 2017 Is it affordable or workforce housing? Most of us really don’t care about the name. Just make sure that safe, decent and sanitary housing does not cost me more than 30% of my income. Otherwise, I’m balancing the cost of necessities such as food, medicine, children clothes, educational items each month. The […]

Filed Under: Change

Thank you for your prayers

Jan. 17, 2017 Happy New Year! Front Porch Charlotte started in December 2014 as a reminder to me, and a way to share how I learned some of life’s lessons. It was on my front porch in First Ward that I saw what to do and not to do, I heard what to say and […]

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Obsevations on the CMS Strategic Plan

Feb. 10, 2015 Former CMS Board of Education Chair Arthur Griffin Jr. addressed the board Feb. 10, 2015 to urge changes in the board’s strategic plan, and to end “unconscionable” treatment of children, teachers and staff at hypersegregated schools in westside Charlotte.  

Filed Under: Change

Our children deserve more coordinated work on poverty, reading

High levels of poverty and low levels of reading are inseparable problems that should be studied and ameliorated together.

Filed Under: Change, Demography

Growing up, I learned life lessons on the front porch. Today’s front porch has moved to the Internet. I want this site to focus on children, public education and efforts to ensure that every child becomes a well-educated, mature, motivated adult.

– Arthur Griffin

The 3AM Blog

Observations that may or may not bear up under the light of day, as posted at any time of the day by those involved in this site.

Past, present, or…

1/30/17: Children represent 23% of the present U.S. population and 100% of our collective future.

How will we respond?

1-29-17: “We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact we haven’t so far.”

– Ronald Edmonds (May 24, 1935- July 15, 1983)

Opportunities abound

12-28-16: At its Oct. 25 meeting the CMS Board of Education approved a bunch of construction contracts, mostly for heating and air conditioning work. They are listed here in descending order of percentage participation by minority, women and small business enterprises.

  • 34.74% Providence High HVAC Controls
  • 1.5% Harding High chiller
  • 0% Cornelius Elementary chiller
  • 0% J.T. Williams HVAC controls
  • 0% Myers Park High chiller
  • 0% Pawtucket Elementary roof

Is there anything wrong with this picture?

Break the cycle

8-21-15: Who gets the leg up from pre-K programs? In 2013 about half of the children of adults with graduate or professional degrees were enrolled. But only about a quarter of the children of adults with less than a high school education were enrolled. Let’s break the cycle right there! Data from The Condition of Education 2015.

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