ISSUE:
The board of an Edgewater charter school voted unanimously Thursday to close, after what started as a failed search for more space ended with the principal's resignation.
Officials with KIPP Harbor Academy had said that it cannot easily replace Principal Jallon Brown, one of its specially trained leaders, so the school must be shuttered.
Brown said she stepped down because 10 of her 12 teachers found new jobs between the initial June 20 announcement to close and the reversal of that decision a week later. She said it would be virtually impossible for her to replenish their ranks before classes resumed Aug. 6.
KIPP officials have blamed the Anne Arundel County public school system for failing to support the middle school's mission to expand. But some parents say KIPP mishandled the matter by informing them of the school's struggles too late and balking at the school district's offer of portable classrooms outside its home at Sojourner-Douglass College.
YOUR VIEW:
Could the school have been saved? If so, what might have been done differently to keep KIPP open?
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