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Negotiations around the sale of the old Southern Pines Elementary School campus may be approaching a successful resolution. School board members authorized Moore County Schools officials to continue working toward a final agreement with Moore Montessori Community School, the charter school that hopes to purchase and move into the old Southern Pines Elementary, and roundly endorsed the latest set of provisions hammered out between the district’s and Moore Montessori’s attorneys. Moore ...

Case files in a civil complaint against the Moore County Board of Education, unsealed Friday, allege that a culture of sexual impropriety among Pinecrest administrators and staff enabled a school resource officer to engage a student in sexual activity during her sophomore and junior years. That student is the plaintiff in a case known as “L.P. v. Moore County Board of Education,” which was filed in Moore County Superior Court earlier this year. The school board voted on Nov. 30 to pay...