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Without warning, Bed-Stuy school learns it could close in June | GothamSchools

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Without warning, Bed-Stuy school learns it could close in June

The Bedford-Stuyvesant building that houses the Academy of Business and Community Development, which could close in June.

It was bad enough news when staff and students at the Academy of Business and Community Development in Bedford-Stuyvesant found out last month that its middle school grades might phase out.

But on Thursday, the all-boys student body was herded into the auditorium for an end-of-day assembly and received a more jolting fate from the school’s principal, Simone McIntosh: Not only would both the middle and