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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.
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The charter school operators who serve on North Carolina’s Charter School Review Board were taken aback when Charlotte’s Movement School network came to them with an unusual request this month. Movement, which locates its schools where they’re likely to serve large numbers of minority and low-income students, wanted permission to phase out its only middle school to concentrate on pre-K-5 schools.
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Movement School, a Charlotte charter school network, recently got state approval to open new schools in Gastonia and Greensboro. It also plans to phase out its only middle school and drop one approved project in Charlotte.
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Most of North Carolina's 1.5 million students return to classes today, but the scramble to hire teachers for them is far from over.
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One Charlotte charter school lost its appeal to stay open and another faces a closure vote at this week's North Carolina Board of Education meeting.
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A Charlotte charter school is appealing North Carolina's decision to cut off funding this summer, saying it's working to fix academic struggles and staff churn.
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The House Education Committee Tuesday approved a bill that would let North Carolina charter schools admit out-of-state students who pay tuition — something traditional public schools already can do.
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A pair of matching voucher bills in the state House and Senate signal a shift in the way North Carolina pays for public education. Both are titled “Choose Your School, Choose Your Future,” and they’d remove income restrictions on receiving public money to pay private school tuition. Passage is virtually certain, given the bills’ powerful sponsors in a General Assembly with a veto-proof Republican majority.
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Last week the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board zeroed in on one of the toughest tasks ahead: Helping more students thrive in high school math. When the school board identified its biggest academic challenge in 2021, high school Math I scores were among them. Math I is the foundation for all other math classes, and that means it’s crucial for getting into college or high-tech careers.