At Friday’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board retreat in Winston-Salem, administrators offered the school board new insights into the lottery process. That included some of the logic behind why CMS switched to using Parchment — a change that drew criticism from families after some technical glitches created confusion in this year’s lottery process.
CMS Deputy Superintendent Melissa Balknight told the board that 22,000 families participated in the lottery this year – 6,000 more than last year.
But Balknight also told the board that the switch to Parchment — which she said is used by many schools across the country — was meant to replace a previous system that essentially relied on a single employee who had the technical savvy to run the whole lottery. That individual then retired…