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Petition asks board to reconsider returning to full-time instruction More than 2,000 people have signed an online petition asking the Cleveland County Board of Education to reconsider its decision to send some of the county's youngest students back to school this month. In December the school board voted 8-1 for a plan to send all prekindergarten through fourth-grade students back to five days of instruction following the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. With coronavirus case counts climbing to a critical point, some have now expressed concerns with that plan. A petition created by Amanda Buch...

Cleveland County's school board wants a new attorney. The county school board voted 5-4 on Dec. 14 to end its contract with Tharrington Smith LLP, a Raleigh-based law firm which specializes in education law. New board members Robert Queen, Rodney Fitch, Ron Humphries and Joel Shores joined Danny Blanton in voting to end the contract. Greg Taylor, Dena Green, Coleman Hunt and Phillip Glover voted against.  The board has contracted with Tharrington Smith since the merger of the Shelby, Kings Mountain and Cleveland County School districts more than a decade ago. In the last five years the dist...