Education

Black Lives Matter forum will focus on education in Charlotte

By Ann Doss Helms

ahelms@charlotteobserver.com
The Black Lives Matter forum will look at options for high-poverty schools such as Thomasboro Academy, which is part of the public-private Project LIFT.
The Black Lives Matter forum will look at options for high-poverty schools such as Thomasboro Academy, which is part of the public-private Project LIFT. David T. Foster III dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com

The Charlotte Post Foundation will hold a community conversation Aug. 25 about helping students in high-poverty schools get an equitable education.

The session, billed as a Black Lives Matter forum on education inequities, is from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Nations Ford Community Church, 5901 Nations Ford Road.

The forum comes as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools reviews its student assignment policies in hopes of reducing concentrations of poverty and giving all students better options. CMS has 77 of 168 schools where at least three-quarters of students come from low-income homes. Most of the students are black and Hispanic, and many of those schools hold low state performance grades.

Ann Doss Helms: 704-358-5033, @anndosshelms

This story was originally published August 16, 2016 at 5:01 PM with the headline "Black Lives Matter forum will focus on education in Charlotte."

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