Also News: Kanye West runs a school! (Or, ran.)
Donda Academy, a Los Angeles school run by temperamental presidential candidate and artist Kanye West, abruptly shut down Wednesday “at the discretion of [its] founder, the Times of London reports.
The pre-K through 12th grade school, which charged an annual tuition of $15,000, has around 13 teachers and 100 students. School administrators sent an email to students’ parents Wednesday reading “at the discretion of our founder, Donda Academy will close for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year effective immediately. … There is no school [Thursday].”
None of the four children the celebrity, who wants to be called Ye, has with reality TeeVee star Kim Kardashian attend the school. Parents who send their children to the school sign a confidentiality agreement about the academy’s operations and activities.
UPDATE 9:30 p.m. ET: NPR reports hours after the academy official set out the email announcing the school’s closure, another email went out saying parents have organized to keep the school open. “With the help of our parents and community, we are back and returning with a vengeance!”
The school is an unaccredited institution whose website says it provides a Christian-based education with the promotion of Christian values alongside traditional math, science and language studies.