The founders of a District charter school have been in an escalating feud with the school’s board of directors over control of the Northeast campus that has spawned a lawsuit and prompted a judge to slap the school’s former principal with a restraining order. But as the battle over William E. Doar Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts heads for a Superior Court hearing Thursday, the founders, the William E. Doar, Jr. Educational Foundation, now say they will quit the fight.

“It’s in the best interest of the school and the students, we feel at this point,” attorney Julius Terrell said Tuesday. “It’s better to have stability.”