There are more than 200 charter schools in North Carolina. TMSA serves more than 5,200 K-12 students in seven campuses. TMSA began in 2008 with Triad Math and Science Academy in Greensboro.

A former Roanoke school administrator, who was fired in 2009 after being implicated in a cheating scandal, now is leading a failing North Carolina charter school.

Bridges Academy, located about 150 miles west of Raleigh, was one of the first charter schools to open in North Carolina in 1997. Charter schools are taxpayer-funded schools that are exempt from ...