{"id":7583,"date":"2010-07-29T16:48:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T20:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2010-07-29T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T20:49:19","slug":"michigans-first-virtual-charter-school-selects-downtown-grand-rapids-site-accepting-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/07\/29\/michigans-first-virtual-charter-school-selects-downtown-grand-rapids-site-accepting-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan&#8217;s first virtual charter school selects downtown Grand Rapids site, accepting applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rapidgrowthmedia.com\/devnews\/K120729.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michigan&#8217;s first virtual charter school selects  downtown Grand Rapids site, accepting applications<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from rapidgrowthmedia.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A virtual charter school sponsored by Grand Valley State University will welcome  its first students on September 7 at what school leaders say is its  first Michigan location \u2013 a former office space at 678 Front Ave. NW.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12.com\/mvca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan Virtual Charter Academy<\/a>,  operated by Herndon, Va.-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rapidgrowthmedia.com\/devnews\/www.K12.com%20\" target=\"_blank\">K12, Inc.<\/a>,  will launch with a curriculum geared for high school dropouts ages 17  to 21, offering onsite and online learning in half-day formats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a hybrid blend of onsite and online  learning, and we&#8217;ll have two shifts of students,&#8221; says Randall Greenway,  vice president of school development. &#8220;This was a promising location  and it&#8217;s close to where we believe our students reside and work. It also  has public transportation nearby, and that&#8217;s a big part of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan&#8217;s first virtual charter school selects downtown Grand Rapids site, accepting applications &#8212; from rapidgrowthmedia.com A virtual charter school sponsored by Grand Valley State University will welcome its first students on September 7 at what school leaders say is its first Michigan location \u2013 a former office space at 678 Front Ave. NW. Michigan Virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,99,46,385,62,164],"tags":[617,619,4,754,601,165],"class_list":["post-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blended-learning","category-hybrid-learning","category-k-12-related","category-michigan","category-online-learning","category-virtual-k-12-schools","tag-blended-learning","tag-hybrid-learning","tag-k-12","tag-michigan","tag-online-learning","tag-virtual-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7587,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions\/7587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}