CMS Determines Where Some Teachers Will Be Hired

Less than a week after Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools leaders announced they'll hire 286 teachers, Eyewitness News has learned more about which schools they'll end up at.

Only Eyewitness News obtained the new teacher allotment list from CMS. According to the list, two out of every three schools won't get new teachers.

Of the 286 teacher positions, only 68 are included on the allotment list, with schools like Garinger High with five, North Mecklenburg High with four and Spaugh Middle with four getting the most teachers.

So where are the rest of the positions?

Eyewitness News was told 150 positions will be divvied up by the area superintendents. They'll decide which schools those additional teachers will be placed in, based on enrollment, performance, poverty and other factors.

Those 150 positions haven't been decided on yet.

A final 68 positions are being held, and CMS will not hire anyone for those positions for now.

District leaders said they want to make sure they get all the money that the state promised them so they don't have to hire someone only to let them go weeks later.

Myers Park High School, with 2,800 students and more than 110 teachers, is the largest in CMS and lost nearly 30 teachers earlier this year. According to the new allotment list, Myers Park will get one new teacher.

It's not what students there were hoping.

"It's my senior year and I don't want that many students in my classroom. I want a teacher that can focus on each student instead of focusing on the class as a whole," said Myers Park senior Dylan Johnson.

CMS leaders admit that most of the new teachers will not be ready for the start of the school year. • PDF: Teachers Added To CMS

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