Negotiations between the U.S. Department of Education and the Charlotte School of Law to allow current students to complete their studies at the beleaguered school have broken down, calling into question whether Charlotte will reopen Monday as planned, though administrators vowed it would.
In a letter to students Wednesday, Education Department undersecretary Ted Mitchell wrote that the school has walked away from a tentative deal that would have allowed its roughly 700 students to continue attending classes under the instruction of faculty from another law school and entitle them to certain refund and loan discharge options. Administrators at Charlotte, which is North Carolina’s largest law school, have been scrambling to keep the school open since the Education Department announced on Dec. 19 that it would cut off access to federal student loans due to what it said were accreditation shortfalls and misinformation about the performance of graduates on the bar exam.
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