Identical to S 176, filed 3/4/15.

Authorizes a charter school, which opened an elementary school in the 2014-15 school year, to expand the school to include a middle school serving grade six for the 2015-16 school year providing that the charter school is located in a county that meets all of the following criteria: (1) the county is adjacent to a county with a major military installation, as defined in GS 143-151.71; (2) the county has a population greater than 100,000, as verified by the 2010 US Census; and (3) there has been more than an 8 percent change in the county's population since the 2010 Census, as determined by the US Census Bureau.