Ottawa High School students head home after class last year. Under a proposal from Grand Rapids Superintendent Teresa Weatherall Neal, GRPS will work on partnering with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to create a recruitment pipeline with the school, located at 2055 Rosewood Ave. SE. Her proposal also has the school sharing its building with a new International Baccalaureate arts program in 2014-15. MLive File Photo

The effort to build relationships with the schools was announced as part of Superintendent Teresa Weatherall Neal’s proposal to restructure the district. The “transformation plan” closes, reopens, consolidates, and changes schools as well as invests in new ideas and programs. read more…