Author: Micah Walker, BridgeDetroit, Laurie Mermet

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy.For Takiyah Pearson, the Barack Obama Leadership Academy has been an idyllic place to send her children, with its Afro-centric curriculum and family atmosphere.But the charter school could close after this year, leaving her and other parents in a conundrum: Search for new schools now or take a wait-and-see approach that, if the school does close, could put them behind other parents also on the hunt.“I am waiting everyday,” Pearson said. “I want to know what’s going on now. I don’t…