Charter Schools

Charlotte dominated the list of new North Carolina charter schools approved Thursday, with three schools getting the OK to open in 2023.

North Carolina's intermediate appeals court has ruled a lawsuit that attempts to block a law that permits four Charlotte-area municipalities to operate their own charter schools can’t go forward. The Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Tuesday in favor of legislative leaders defending the 2018 law.

Movement Mortgage, which supports two Charlotte charter schools, Friday announced it's putting $100 million into its foundation to expand to 100 schools in the next 10 years.

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.