"Full circle moment" "Círculo completo" It’s been a dream – 23 years in the making. When Amber Charter School opened an Inwood campus last fall, it marked the end of a two-decade odyssey to bring the school to the northernmost tip of Manhattan. The charter network was founded in 2000 by the Community Association of Progressive Dominicans (or La Asociación Comunal de Dominicanos Progresistas in Spanish), becoming the first Latino-led charter school in New York State.