
{"id":26151,"date":"2012-05-31T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=26151"},"modified":"2012-05-31T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T13:49:00","slug":"charter-school-wont-open-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/05\/31\/charter-school-wont-open-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter school won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t open this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Howard and Lillian Lee Scholars Charter School will not open as planned for the 2012-13 school year, according to a report posted Tuesday on the NC Policy Watch website.<\/p>\n<p>The State Board of Education unanimously approved the school \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one of nine schools across the state approved after the General Assembly lifted the 100-school cap on charter schools in the state \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in March.<\/p>\n<p>The fast-track charter application approval is only valid for the school to open in 2012, so the school has submitted an application for the 2013-14 school year. The school had recently notified the state Department of Public Instruction that it would need to delay its opening after having experienced delays finding a site.  <\/p>\n<p>The school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s application stated that its purpose would be to provide \u00e2\u20ac\u0153high-quality K-8 education that closes achievement gaps and places each student on the path to college readiness.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It would be run by a for-profit, Michigan-based charter school management company, National Heritage Academies.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s board reported to the Department of Public Instruction that it had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153encountered challenges regarding the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s facility.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>A permanent site has been identified and a letter of intent had been executed, the board wrote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but the unanticipated, lengthy process of obtaining a conditional land use permit prevents the Board from constructing a new facility before August, 2012.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Staff reports <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Howard and Lillian Lee Scholars Charter School will not open as planned for the 2012-13 school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26152,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151\/revisions\/26152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}