The so-called Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA) will start small a single sixth-grade class lodged temporarily inside an existing public school in Brooklyn.

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Opacity about the planned KGIA course work has been compounded by New York City's failure to comply with the law by providing unresponsive answers to formal requests for information.

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Almontaser resigned from her position as head of KGIA last August, but now claims she was forced out, and is pursuing a legal complaint to regain her place at the school.

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In this space last week, we reported that a sixth-grade class dubbed the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), is supposed to begin teaching students in September inside a New York public school.

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Perhaps the most remarkable detail about the March 3 conclave was the leading role taken in it by Debbie Almontaser, a New York resident who last attracted attention as the front-person for a middle-and-high magnet school to be established in New York, the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA).

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