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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.
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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.