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DA info meetings will be rescheduled

Dear Parents, 

Bloomington Public Schools Gifted Department needs to cancel our upcoming Dimensions Academy High School informational meetings currently scheduled for November 4 at Jefferson High School and December 12th at Kennedy High School from 6:30-7:30p.m. In case you were interested in learning more about these programs for your student, and were planning to attend one of these meetings, we wanted to let you know that we have to reschedule. Feel free to let us know that you are interested in these advanced programming options and we will make sure to keep you in the communication loop. 

Thank you for your understanding and sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. 
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