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After executive session the board overturns constituent board discipline decisions and issues corrective action to Allegro Charter School
Summary
Following an executive session, trustees overturned several constituent board decisions and directed students be placed at Turning Point Academy for the remainder of the school year. The board also cited Allegro Charter School for material contract violations and ordered a 45‑day corrective action plan.
After convening in executive session, the Charleston County School District Board of Trustees on April 28 returned to open session and approved several post‑hearing actions related to student discipline and charter oversight.
The board voted to overturn constituent board decisions in at least two student discipline cases and directed that those students be sent to Turning Point Academy for the remainder of the school year. The motions were made and passed by voice vote; the transcript records the board’s actions but does not contain detailed public reasoning due to the executive‑session deliberations. Trustees later clarified that these votes followed due process under district disciplinary procedures and the constituent board hearing records.
In a separate action on charter oversight, the board voted to cite Allegro Charter School for a material violation of its charter contract with the district. The board issued a corrective action plan that the charter must execute within 45 days: submit a renewal application or required appendices in the format required by CCSD for initial review, complete suggested edits to meet district standards before final submission, and otherwise remedy the cited deficiencies. The board resolution warned that failure to comply within 45 days could result in a decision not to renew Allegro’s charter agreement.
The board’s actions followed closed‑door legal and student‑placement deliberations and were announced in open session. No additional public details of the executive‑session deliberations were released at the meeting.
