With more and more people moving to condo developments in downtown Grand Rapids, and an even larger population expected in the years to come, establishing a wide varieties of schools downtown seems to be a natural next step. But organizers of a proposed middle/high charter school have many obstacles to overcome on their quest to find educators willing to take on the project.
According to excerpts from the story:
A proposed middle-high charter school in downtown Grand Rapids should be run by Grand Rapids Public Schools, a member of an elite group of businessmen backing the school said Friday.
"We'd like to figure out a way to do this cooperatively with GRPS," John Kennedy, CEO of Autocam Corp., said of the plan to create Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy, which would be modeled after a successful charter school in Detroit.
But if the city schools are not interested in the group's offer to replicate such a school here, Kennedy and others said they will take another route.
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