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Community urges bigger teacher pay increases, criticizes proposed cuts during CMS budget hearing
Summary
At a public hearing on the superintendent's 2025-26 budget recommendations, teachers, parents and community groups urged the board to seek larger county and state funding increases, urged a 10% local supplement for teachers, criticized planned arts cuts and teacher displacements, and called for greater transparency on spending.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education held a public hearing on the superintendent's 2025-26 budget recommendation and heard dozens of speakers urging the board to press for larger local and state funding increases and to prioritize teacher pay and staffing.
Speakers including community advocates, classroom teachers and union representatives pressed the board to ask Mecklenburg County for a larger local supplement and to resist cuts that would increase class sizes or eliminate arts programs. "We need you to hold our district accountable for every single dollar that isn't going directly to our students and our buildings," said Devonya Govan Hunt, representing the Black Child Development Institute, Carolinas.
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