From Carolina Journal’s David Bass:
Demand for new charter schools in the Tar Heel State has surged following the enactment of a bill approved by the N.C. General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Bev Perdue in 2011 that lifted the 100-school cap.
By mid-April, approximately 60 applications — a record-breaking number — for new charters had been submitted to the N.C. Office of Charter Schools. If approved, the new charter schools would open by the fall of 2013.
The applications run the gamut of rural and urban regions across North Carolina — from the Triad, Triangle, and Charlotte regions to rural Randolph and Chatham counties.
In Wake County, two schools — Longleaf School of the Arts and Wisdom Academy — submitted applications. If all of Mecklenburg County’s 11 applications are OK’ed, the county could soon a boom in charter-school growth.
