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CMS may be set for rare expulsions: Gorman seeks action against 8 students for `egregious offenses'.

The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC )

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Byline: Steve Lyttle

Jul. 12--Superintendent Peter Gorman will ask the school board later this month to expel eight students, the first Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools expulsions in recent memory.

The action is connected to a revised student-conduct code aimed at increasing CMS oversight of the system's worst troublemakers but also potentially lightening the penalty for some first-time offenders.

"There are some students who come to school not ready to behave," Gorman said Wednesday. "We intend to take action against them."

He said the eight students already recommended for expulsion, an indefinite ban from attending any CMS school, are being…

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