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Author: Valentina Lostalo, Gene Meneray and Amanda Barre Kogos

Facing closure, Cypress Academy parents demand answers from charter, parish school boards

May 22, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019
"We ask that you offer real solutions to this terrible situation in which you have put our families," they wrote.

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