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CMS welcomes interim Superintendent Hugh Hattabaugh back on campus: Monday, April 25

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district will see a familiar face back on campus Monday.

Hugh Hattabaugh started his career with CMS back in 2007 and served as interim superintendent for the district in the 2011-12 school year.

The school board of education voted to have him step in for the role during an emergency meeting on April 19.

"He is a man of high integrity," board member Rhonda Cheek said during the meeting. "He is a man who understands organizational leadership and the operation of a school district.”

Hattabaugh will take over for now-former superintendent Earnest Winston who was fired earlier this month for low performance.

He rejoins the district at a critical time when academic performance and low tests scores are a big concern.

READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/education/cms-interim-superintendent-hugh-hattabaugh-campus-monday/275-c0464f43-444b-4d55-9f0b-3daa79ef71ce

Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., the key player in a North Carolina absentee ballot fraud probe that led to a do-over congressional election, has died.

His daughter, Andrea Dowless Heverly, wrote that her father “passed away peacefully" Sunday morning, according to a social media post. He had been diagnosed with an advanced form of lung cancer and died at his daughter's home in Bladen County, his friend Jay DeLancy told The Associated Press in a brief interview. Dowless was in his mid-60s.

The political operative was set to go on trial this summer on more than a dozen state criminal counts related to absentee ballot activities for the 2016 general election and the 2018 primary and general elections. A half-dozen others were also charged.

READ https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/mccrae-dowless-9th-district-has-died/275-04b7b022-c49d-4c30-a7c5-847cb9c73ab3

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