Students will soon have access to a new kind of school with web-heavy curriculum, thanks to a charter school recently authorized by Grand Valley State University trustees.
The Virginia-based K-12 Inc. will launch a charter school this fall that will require students to do half of their schoolwork over the Internet. The other half of instruction time will be spent with registered teachers in rented classroom space across the state.
Tim Wood, director of the GVSU Charter Schools Office, said the school will have administrative offices in Grand Rapids and Oakland County.
The sites of the learning centers have not been determined.
“We don’t have sites set up,” said Jeff Kwitowski, vice president for public relations at K-12 Inc. “We’re still looking at partnering with some community colleges/universities, similar to what we’ve done in Chicago with some success.”
Kwitowski called his organization “the state’s first virtual charter school institution.”
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