Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

12 meetings on our record, 10 of them from the past year and 2 with unconfirmed dates · typical meeting 3 h 28 min · 144,116 students · 9 members on our roster

Latest · Oct 13, 2026: Charlotte-Mecklenburg board votes 7-2 on equity policy changes renaming it Intentional Access Play 3:22:20
Next · Tuesday, November 10, 2026: 4:00pm (Closed Session) · CMGC Chamber Room, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, 600 East Fourth Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 · District posting ↗
Newest meeting we have: Oct 13, 2026 · District's own meeting list ↗ (it may list later ones)

Also on the board: Shamaiye Haynes, Board member · Gregory 'Dee' Rankin, Vice Chair · Monty Witherspoon, Board member

Watch the board’s yearA decision it made, its hours, its busiest night at the mic and where its time went, each with its source

Recent meetings

What the board took up lately

Board meeting · 3 h 27 minTuesday, October 13, 2026Charlotte-Mecklenburg board votes 7-2 on equity policy changes renaming it Intentional AccessAI in schoolsPhones in schoolReading and test scoresSpeakers: Gregory 'Dee' Rankin, Charlitta Hatch, Shamaiye Haynes, Cynthia Stone and 2 more

Play 3:22:20

Special meeting · 33 minTuesday, September 29, 2026Charlotte-Mecklenburg board approves superintendent search committee charter 6 to 2Speakers: Gregory 'Dee' Rankin, Charlitta Hatch, Shamaiye Haynes, Cynthia Stone and 2 more

Play 1:14

Board meeting · 3 h 35 minTuesday, September 22, 2026Charlotte-Mecklenburg board votes 5-4 to terminate superintendent for convenienceSpeakers: Stephanie Sneed, Gregory 'Dee' Rankin, Charlitta Hatch, Shamaiye Haynes and 2 more

Play 1:25:58

Board meetingTuesday, September 8, 2026CMS board approves consent agenda, hears report of 87.9% graduation rateReading and test scoresSpeakers: Stephanie Sneed, Gregory 'Dee' Rankin, Charlitta Hatch, Shamaiye Haynes and 2 more

Play 42:29

Who does the talking

No one member stands apart on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board: 6 of the 7 members we rank could rank first

Minutes speaking per full board meeting · 10 board meetings, May 26, 2026 – Oct 13, 2026 · talk time only, never tone or stance

A ranking, with its marginEach rank is a 90% range across 10 resampled meetings, so "2nd–4th" means the data can't place them more exactly. The ranges may widen as we name more of the speech.

Coverage: about 92% of members’ speaking time named (90%–93%)

Minutes = time we heard them speak per meeting, from the speech we have named so far, so each is a floor: at least that much.

Runs the meeting

—Stephanie SneedChair · District 4 · runs the meeting, not ranked10.3min, at least6 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart4.6questions asked per meeting, at least

—Gregory 'Dee' RankinVice Chair · District 3 · runs the meeting, not ranked9.0min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated—runs the meeting, counted apart5.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Members · ranked by minutes per meeting

1st–7thCharlitta HatchBoard member · District 19.9min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated33%of the members’ talking · 19%–45%6.0questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–7thLiz Monterrey DuvallBoard member · At-Large4.8min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated16%of the members’ talking · 14%–18%2.6questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–7thShamaiye HaynesBoard member · District 24.4min, at least8 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated14%of the members’ talking · 13%–17%2.6questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–6thCynthia StoneBoard member · District 54.1min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated13%of the members’ talking · 12%–16%2.7questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–7thLenora ShippBoard member · At-Large2.4min, at least5 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated8%of the members’ talking · 7%–10%3.8questions asked per meeting, at least

1st–7thAnna LondonBoard member · District 61.9min, at least7 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated6%of the members’ talking · 5%–8%2.0questions asked per meeting, at least

2nd–7thMonty WitherspoonBoard member · At-Large2.4min, at least9 of 10meetings heard, of those while seated7%of the members’ talking · 7%–10%1.1questions asked per meeting, at least

Minutes speaking per full board meeting held while seated; a meeting they missed or stayed silent in counts as zero · bar = minutes named so far · line = our margin: members whose lines overlap may sit in either order · talk time only, never tone or stance · Hamlet

Meetings on our record

Next meetingTuesday, November 10, 20264:00pm (Closed Session) · CMGC Chamber Room, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, 600 East Fourth Street, Charlotte, NC 28202Regular Meeting of the Board - CMGC Chamber Room (Closed Session at 4:00pm)The district’s posting ↗Add to calendarPosting checked Oct 29

All 12 meetings on our record

Clips

What board members said

I will celebrate that CMS is approving, but I will not hear we're doing better than before or better than most and automatically accept that as good enough. …Charlitta HatchBoard member · Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Sep 8, 2026Watch the full meeting from 4:23:06
Do we have— are there situations, or could we have schools that are maybe barely below the 75% who still have a significant need but the resources are not there because they don't have those specific funds to support that? …Anna LondonBoard member · Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · May 26, 2026Watch the full meeting from 1:48:01
I think it's important for educators to understand that raises, teacher pay, that sort of a thing really is separate in the way of what we're eligible to do as a school system.Shamaiye HaynesBoard member · Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · May 26, 2026Watch the full meeting from 2:53:41

On the map · Phones in school

June 9, 2026

The board discussed phones in school.

Its first meeting on phones in the year we read; phones came up at 2 of its meetings. A faint dot on the map: we had read too few of its earlier meetings to call it new.

Watch the film Open the meeting

Meeting time

Where the board's meeting time went

Public comment14%6%–24%

Budget and finance3%0%–8%

Ceremony and recognition1%0%–4%

Safety and discipline0%0%–19%

The two readers didn’t agree on 11% of the time; it counts toward no topic, so every share above is a floor.

Not shown: facilities, closures and enrollment, curriculum and instruction, student services and special education, labor and personnel, governance and policy, routine business, other subjects, whose checks haven’t passed

Public comment

Of the 12 meetings on our record, we counted public speakers at 11; 4 had at least one. The busiest, on Oct 13, 2026, heard from 36.

36 on Oct 13, 202636 speakers18 speakers9.9 a meeting on average

Attendance

The roll call at 4 of the 12 meetings on our record: the ones where we could read it

Roll-call attendance, member by meeting
Member	Oct 13	Sep 29	Sep 22	Sep 8	Aug 25	Aug 11	Jul 22	Jun 23	Jun 9	May 26
Gregory 'Dee' Rankin	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Monty Witherspoon	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Charlitta Hatch	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded
Shamaiye Haynes	Not recorded	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Anna London	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Cynthia Stone	Not recorded	Not shown	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Stephanie Sneed	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Liz Monterrey Duvall	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded
Lenora Shipp	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Present	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded

PresentNot shownNot recorded

Federal district ID 3702970 · student count from the federal 2023-24 count · meeting videos posted by the district