SUNY trustees close 3 charter schools.(Capital Region)

Byline: Associated Press

ALBANY - The State University of New York Board of Trustees on Tuesday voted to close three charter schools and to renew the charters of 11 more statewide.

Evaluating test scores and other measures, the board decided not to renew the five-year charters of the Central New York Charter School for Math and Science in Syracuse, the Charter School of Science and Technology in Rochester and the Rochester Leadership Academy Charter School, said L. Jeffrey Perez of SUNY's Charter Schools Institute.

The Central New York Charter School has 549 students in kindergarten through sixth grade, the Charter School of Science and Technology …