COLUMBIA, New York University and the Universities of Michigan and Oregon are colleges six-year old Alexander Ferguson is considering attending come 2022, brags his mother Iris Ayala. But because of a lawsuit affecting charter schools in New York City, it is not clear if Alexander's current school, Harlem Success Academy, will open after the summer break. A teachers' union and the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (naacp), a civil-rights group, filed a lawsuit last month to stop 22 failing schools from closing and also to prevent 19 charter schools from moving in with exist-ing district schools. (Charter schools are independently managed but government-funded.)
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