The Letter of Intent has been submitted to the Charter School Office (CSO) of Department of Education (DOE) of New York State (NYS) to seek for authorization to open in September 2015. Below is the submitted version of the LOI for public review and feedbacks. A letter of receipt from CSO of DOE in NYS is presented below as a public record.

Dear Applicant(s):

Your Letter of Intent to Apply for a charter to establish The Confucius Chinese Charter School was received at 02:51 PM (US/Eastern) on Monday, July 07, 2014.

Below is the letter received by the Lotus Chinese Charter School team from the Charter School Office of DOE of NYS. Original Submitted Letter of Intent (LOI) is posted here for public feedbacks:

Dear Applicant(s):

Your Letter of Intent to Apply for a charter to establish The Lotus Chinese Charter School was received at 03:51 AM (US/Eastern) on Monday, July 07, 2014.

Charter School Office staff will review all submitted Letters of Intent and evaluate for completeness.

The Whole Elephant Chinese Charter School team has been broadly reaching out to the community for seeking public feedbacks and support.

Below are letters sent to the elected officials based in Flushing Queens and the Governor of New York State as well as the Mayor of New York City:

Letter from the Charter School Office of the Department of Education of New York State:

Dear Applicant(s):

Your Letter of Intent to Apply for a charter to establish The Whole Elephant Chinese Charter School was received at 01:08 AM (America/New_York) on Monday, July 07, 2014.

Charter School Office staff will review all submitted Letters of Intent and evaluate for completeness. Only those Letters of Intent deemed to be complete will be accepted.