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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Last year 62 of North Carolina’s 211 charter schools were rated as low-performing or continuously low-performing. State officials want to bring that number down.
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Charter schools are public schools run by private boards, subject to the same testing and accountability system as school districts. They go through a rigorous application process to win state approval before they can start getting public money.
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North Carolina officials want to stop funding to a Gastonia charter school. They also put a Charlotte charter school on financial discipline status Monday.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating a report that a Corvian charter school employee embezzled $50,000. It was filed two days after the board fired the school's founder.
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Charlotte's Corvian Community School has fired founding director Stacey Haskell, citing mismanagement of the charter school's resources and problems with workplace culture.