RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - David Machado, chief administrator of the Lincoln Charter School in Lincoln County, will be the state's new director of the Department of Public Instruction’s Office of Charter Schools.

The state Board of Education approved his appointment Wednesday.
 
“David Machado is the right person to provide leadership for the continued advancement of quality public charter schools in North Carolina,” said Bill Cobey, chairman of the State Board of Education, in a news release. “He is a success in the charter school community having presided over an exemplary charter school of more than 1,900 students, 205 staff members and two campuses."

Machado starts the job July 1.