From June of 2016 concerning the Achievement School District, now the Innovative School District (ISD):

With just days remaining in the N.C. General Assembly’s short session, leaders on the Senate Education Committee have given their approval to achievement school districts, a GOP-backed model of school reform that may clear for-profit charter takeovers of low-performing schools.

Committee Chair Jerry Tillman, a Republican who supports the measure, declared the “ayes” to have won the vote Friday, although to some listeners, the voice vote appeared to be evenly split or favoring the opposition.

House Bill 1080, the long-gestating work of Rep. Rob Bryan, a Republican from Mecklenburg County, will allow state leaders to create a pilot program pulling five chronically low-performing schools into one statewide district. From there, the state could opt to hand over control of the schools, including hiring and firing powers, to for-profit charter operators.

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“They will make great growth,” declared Tillman. “That’s a fact.”

Also from June of 2016:

Other critics pointed out a similar system in Tennessee had not produced better academic results. But Sen. Jerry Tillman, R-Randolph, said the Tennessee plan tried to do too much, too quickly.

“These models have worked and will work if you don’t go too big,” Tillman said. “These schools will do a great job for these kids. It’s something we need to try.”

Too much, too quickly. Well that Tennessee model has had another three years to work things out. And now this.

Let’s clarify a couple of things:

• No model of this ASD  / ISD has ever worked. The Tennessee model has had years to work itself out. It didn’t.
• There is only one school in the current NC ISD. It doesn’t get any “don’t go too big” than that.
• The guy who brought up the legislation, former Rep. Rob Bryan who came back to finish Dan Bishop’s term, worked for the very charter company that first presided over the ISD in North Carolina.

And there was this from the summer of 2019:

The state program designed to turn around North Carolina’s lowest performing schools is now without a superintendent or a principal.

That’s the opening line from an article posted in the News & Observer from July of 2019 entitled “NC program to take over low-performing schools loses superintendent and principal.”

An “innovative” school district run by an out-of-state for-profit charter chain that employed the NC rep who pushed it through the NCGA with a voice vote presided over by Sen. Jerry Tillman that still has only one school was then on its third superintendent and its second principal.

With no real growth. And the model on which it was constructed was declared a failure.

Southside Ashpole Elementary:
4 – F’s
Everything else is an “I” which stands for “Insufficient Data.”
1 – Not Met’s
2 – Met

Now finally in late 2021:

Liz Schlemmer’s thread says it pretty well.