Choir Academy of Harlem slated for closing again

Two weeks after a judge said the city’s Department of Education could not close 19 schools as planned, one of the schools is back on the city’s agenda to be shuttered.

 

The new plan to close the school — which is actually not a school per se, but the high school grades of the Choir Academy of Harlem — is on the agenda for the Panel for Educational Policy meeting on April 20 in Brooklyn.

 

While this is the first of the 19 schools that the city is making a second attempt to close, it is also something of a unique case. That’s because the new proposal to close the Choir Academy’s high school was developed before the judge’s ruling.