Charter Schools

Buried deep in the North Carolina House budget bill is a provision to let one Mooresville charter school open this August without state review. Its board members include a U.S. senator's wife and a congressional staffer.

The number of charter schools in North Carolina has increased steadily since the state lifted the 100-school limit in 2011. But the coming school year will be the first with no growth.

One of North Carolina's oldest charter schools, Children's Village Academy in Kinston, Thursday lost an appeal seeking a fresh start amid a tangle of financial and legal troubles.

North Carolina's Charter School Review Board approved dramatic expansion Monday for two Charlotte charter schools despite low test scores. That wasn't allowed until the law changed last year.

North Carolina's Charter Schools Review Board voted unanimously Monday to stop public funding for a financially troubled Kinston school. It's the second school the board has voted to close this spring.

North Carolina's charter school enrollment is booming, but nine of 12 schools approved to open this August have postponed because of trouble finding buildings and recruiting students.

Charter school board members carry huge responsibility: More than 145,000 students attend charter schools, and North Carolina spent $986 million on charter schools last year.

North Carolina's Charter Schools Review Board renewed a Charlotte school's funding after a state official backed down on financial discipline. They'll wait a month to decide whether to close a Kinston school.

Leaders of Gastonia's Ridgeview Charter School are asking the North Carolina Board of Education for a second chance to improve test scores. But a committee voted Tuesday to recommend cutting off the school's funding.

North Carolina’s Charter Schools Review Board voted unanimously to cut off public funding for Gastonia’s Ridgeview Charter School, a high-poverty K-8 school with consistently low test scores.