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.
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.
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.