That, he said, was “an unprecedented and precipitous position.”<br />He added, “We have been working on our academic admissions indicators, restructured our curriculum, rescinded some acceptances<br />and are improving our comprehensive approach to bar preparation.”<br />Mr. Ogene said the school was seeking to reverse the aid cutoff decision so it could receive payment for the second<br />semester of tuition for students who qualified for federal student loans, and had a disbursement last fall.<br />In an expletive-laced recording, aired last month by the National Public Radio station WFAE, in Charlotte, a Charlotte Law official said<br />that its July 2015 bar pass rate would have been in the low 20-percent range if the school had not convinced struggling students to defer taking the exam.<br />CHARLOTTE, N. C. — Toni Valentine, a third-year law student, wanted to know if her<br />school, Charlotte School of Law, was going to close, but it was not telling her.<br />Mr. Ogene was a former general counsel for Infilaw Holdings, a group based in Naples, Fla.,<br />that operates Charlotte Law as well as the for-profit schools Arizona Summit Law School and Florida Coastal School of Law.<br />“They harmed students by cutting off student loans only days before school reopened,”<br />he said in an interview at the school’s gleaming glass and steel high-rise.<br />Schools have to be accredited for their students to qualify for federal student loans, a source of funding<br />that most law students rely on to pay six-figure tuition costs.
