The CharlotteFive Podcast team decided to try to take a look at the future of the city, its recent transformative events, the education system and the role race plays in Charlotte, so we brought on Harvey B. Gantt, a former two-term Charlotte mayor and the first African American to hold that position.
Please click and listen to the full interview with Gantt right below, along with some audio of Gantt’s recent appearance on a panel looking at education in the city. Farther down are some small excerpts of what was talked about on the podcast.
On the issues facing the education of lower income children and the need for balanced responsibility, at home and with the schools …
“We [Charlotte] are a city with a little bit of a complex. We really want to be recognized as a world class city, and I’ve been saying this for 25 years, you’ll be a world class city when you can show the world how you educate poor children. There is no excuse some of the stumbles that the…
