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After recommending charter school’s closure, city tells parents | GothamSchools

After recommending charter school’s closure, city tells parents | GothamSchools

After recommending charter school’s closure, city tells parents

A week after announcing that the city will recommend the closure of a controversial Manhattan charter school, city officials have begun to reach out to help parents plan where they will send their students next year.

In a letter sent yesterday, the charter school office executive director Recy Benjamin Dunn formally told parents that the city is recommending that the state shutter Ross Global Academy.

This is the first letter from city officials to Ross parents concerning the decision. City officials held a meeting at