RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Bus drivers for North Carolina’s largest school system called in sick on Friday to protest working conditions, prompting administrators to urge parents to arrange their own transportation and warn of similar problems next week.
5 new NC charter schools OK d to open in 2022. Why Wake officials tried to block one. T. Keung Hui, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Apr. 9 Five new North Carolina charter schools were approved Thursday to open in 2022, including a school that had been opposed by the Wake County school system.
Wake school leaders argued that allowing Triangle Math and Science Academy to open a second charter school would increase segregation in the district. But the State Board of Education voted Thursday to grant the additional charter, siding with Triangle s track record of academic success and promise to diversify the new school.