"Nothing illustrates the elusiveness of school reform like Reid Park Academy," writes the
Charlotte Observer's Ann Doss Helms in "Westside's Reid Park Elementary Shows the Challenge of Reform." Four years ago, the school "became a pioneer in a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools push to get strong faculty into weak schools. One year ago, then-Superintendent Peter Gorman added middle school students, assuring skeptical families it was a successful school. But 2012 state ratings list it as one of the worst in CMS and the state." In 2008, Helms reports, seven struggling
by Alexander Russo
