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Principals at Providence and East Mecklenburg high schools have been tapped to open the new Charlotte-Mecklenburg high schools opening in August 2010.
Mark Nixon, who has led East Meck for the last seven years, will take the helm at a new high school in Mint Hill.
The school board is still pondering boundaries for that school, which is designed to relieve crowding at East Meck, Independence and Butler. Mint Hill town officials and residents turned out en masse last week to urge the school board to scrap the CMS staff plan and adopt an alternative that assigns the entire town to the new school. The board delayed action until August.
Terri Cockerham, Providence's principal since 2005, will lead the new Bailey Road high school in Cornelius. It will pull students from the northern part of the Hopewell and North Mecklenburg zones.
The two will start their new jobs on July 1, more than a year before their schools take students, because CMS believes that much planning is required to create a new high school. The principals will be involved in hiring, creating class schedules and naming the schools.
