North Carolina's State Board of Education and Department of Public Instruction opened a review of alleged financial irregularities at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools — the third state body now looking at the district, after the state auditor and the State Bureau of Investigation. We walk through the law that sets this one apart: a three-step ladder that ends with the state taking control of a district's finances, and why nobody has said CMS is headed there. Plus: state law enforcement agencies sign immigration-enforcement agreements under a new law, Charlotte's data center moratorium heads to a public hearing, the voter registration deadline is one week out, and an eight-time Grammy winner plays uptown tonight.

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