Charter Schools

A Monroe charter school that opened early is North Carolina's largest COVID-19 cluster. As schools prepare to bring students back next week, here's what the head of school has learned.

Union Academy charter school has been listed as a COVID-19 school cluster, the first in the Charlotte region this school year. That indicates health officials believe 26 student cases were likely spread at school.

Monroe Academy, a Union County charter school, decided to enforce a mask mandate Monday after one week of classes with unmasked students brought 14 COVID-19 cases and led to more than 150 students and staff members being quarantined.

Mecklenburg County health officials say Providence High School’s junior varsity baseball team has a cluster of COVID-19 cases. The county report also cites four student cases at Community School of Davidson as a cluster.

The North Carolina Board of Education Thursday approved five new charter schools to open in fall of 2022, including two in the Charlotte area.

Ken Stanley, a longtime teacher at Union Academy Charter School, died Saturday after contracting COVID-19.

State-mandated cursive writing lessons were among the casualties of the pandemic in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools last year, a new state report says.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board meets Thursday morning to figure out a new plan for bringing students back to in-person classes. But that's only the most obvious sign of an education system thrown into turmoil by Mecklenburg County Health Director Gibbie Harris' surprise directive Tuesday.

Jamie Seitz, a coach and physical education teacher at Lincoln Charter School, died Sunday night, reportedly from COVID-19. He taught physical education at the Denver campus of the Lincoln County charter school since 2009. He also coached golf, volleyball and basketball, according to Chief Administrator Jonathan Bryant.

Two Charlotte-area school districts say the disruption of the coronavirus pandemic has sharply increased the number of students who earned F's in the first quarter.