HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 19, 2025) – The turbulence that two OK Red Conference school districts have had on closing elementary schools hasn’t been felt in Holland.
Earlier this month, the school boards in Rockford and Grand Haven voted to close Parkside and Mary A. White schools, respectively, at the end of this current academic year in order to repurpose those buildings as early learning centers. Both decisions came with outcries from parents and students affected by the closings.
Such outcries haven’t happened with a February decision by the Holland Board of Education to convert four separate elementary schools into three buildings and an early learning center. Why?
District spokesman Jason Craner explained during a Tuesday appearance on “WHTC Talk of the Town.”
Audio PlayerAnother in a series of open-house style meetings that Holland Superintendent Nick Cassidy and staffers are holding to discuss the district’s five-year facility plan comes on Thursday from 6-7 PM, during the Math Carnival at the Holland Language Academy (461 Van Raalte Ave.), with the final such session next Wednesday, from 5-7 PM, at the district’s Administration Building (320 W. 24th St.).
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