Wake schools adds 4 new 'Restart' schools to improve lagging academics
Four more Wake County schools will enter North Carolina’s Restart program for academically underperforming schools.
The North Carolina State Board of Education approved adding the schools to the program Thursday.
That brings the number of Wake County Public School System schools in the Restart program to 34 schools — about a quarter of all Restart schools in the state.
The Restart program is for public schools that have been designated low-performing for at least two out of the past three years.
It allows them to operate with the regulatory flexibility that charter schools can operate with, in the hopes that they will be able to implement new ideas that ultimately improve the schools. They also receive an influx in funding to help them turn the schools around. It’s unclear how much each new school would receive.
School systems must apply to have their schools enter the Restart program, which has existed for just a handful of years so far.
The schools Wake County is adding are:
- Centennial Campus Middle School
- Dillard Drive Middle Schools
- Lockhart Elementary School
- Wakelon Elementary School
The schools will start the Restart program this fall.
Statewide, 154 schools are in the Restart program. Another five schools outside of Wake County have applied to join and are pending approval.
