Carter was a high school in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, operated in conjunction with DeVry University.

[2] Because of this, only one floor of the campus was occupied, and some extra laptop computers and technological items, which had been acquired with the grant funds, had never been removed from their boxes for student use.

In addition, the Texas Education Agency lowered the grant money level to $1.6 million (about $2167100.59 when adjusted for inflation).

Tracey Lewis, the principal of the DeVry school, said that the new location may have discouraged some of the earlier CLC students.

Carol Mims Galloway, a former Houston Independent School District board member, said that the program was "set up for failure in the beginning.

Ericka Mellon of the Houston Chronicle said "Closure also would leave the future of the [Carter campus] uncertain.