 The school attempted to merge with one of Arizona's largest Jewish day schools, the 300-student, K-8 Pardes Jewish Day School in northeast Phoenix.The proposed Pardes JSA Community Day School planned to open in August 2011 with 325 K-8 students, but that came and went.Issues included a New York City foundation that gave money to the school to convert to the charter format and now is looking to recover the funds and the legal ramifications involved.