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A brand new Minneapolis charter school announced on Wednesday it is closing its doors immediately, just weeks after it opened.

In a post on its website, the Minneapolis School of New Music’s founder Bart Johnson writes the school will be shutting down permanently just as the school year gets underway. Johnson blames a shortage of staff that forced the decision to close the school on Thomas Avenue North in Minneapolis’ Camden neighborhood.