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Board member Amy White, who co-chairs the state board’s Education Innovation and Charter Schools Committee, told colleagues that she opposes granting HCLA a charter because she doesn’t believe presumed executive director Kashi Bazemore is up to the task based on her past performance at a school Bazemore directed in Bertie County with the same name.