A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit accusing a Success Academy charter school in Brooklyn of harsh treatment of five disabled children to move forward to trial.

U.S. District Judge Frederic Block of the Eastern District of New York preserved discrimination claims by five plaintiff children who attended the Success Academy in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, and who were disenrolled for breaking a disciplinary code that one attorney for the plaintiffs described as “militaristic.”

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