Old courthouse to become charter school

A 93-year-old South Bronx courthouse that has been designated a landmark but has been boarded up for years will become a charter school in the fall, New York City officials say. The Bronx Borough Courthouse will reopen in September as a school for kindergarten through second grade and will expand by a grade a year until it reaches the eighth grade. It will be called the Bronx Academy of Promise Charter School and will be run by Imagine Schools, a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Va.

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