A school for the arts in the Crossroads

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The school administrators might rent the former gym and pool facilities in the Mark Twain Building. It's two blocks away, and that building used to be the Kansas City Athletic Club.

I don't know what shape they are currently in, or if they could be used in present form or not.
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That's not located in the Crossroads...?
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Title is misleading. This school is now located in the CBD.
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http://www.pr.com/press-release/396501
Crossroads Academy will open in the fall of 2012 with 170 students in grades K-5. The open enrollment period will continue until March 31. The school will host an “Enrollment Fair” on Saturday, March 24th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1015 Central, the school’s new location. The Crossroads Academy application is available on the school’s website: www.crossroadsacademykc.org. Prospective parents can also call the school for additional information: (816) 221-2600.
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Downtown setting adds learning opportunities for Crossroads Academy
It won’t just be the 170 children — kindergartners through fifth-graders — surging into 1015 Central St. for the first day of school.

The opening of the Crossroads Academy on Sept. 4 also will be celebrated by advocates who’ve pushed for more than a decade to reinvent downtown, once the hub of commerce and culture, to become a place where people not only work and play but live and maybe even raise kids again.
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DST Realty is allowing the school to use the building for two years at a monthly rent of $1. After that period, the co-founders expect they’ll need more room and may either relocate to larger quarters or keep 1015 Central and find another building nearby. The ultimate goal is to enroll 370 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

While the 16,000-square-foot building needs some renovation — the basement was mostly unfinished — Johnson and McDowell-Ray are delighted with the imaginative interior design left behind by the previous tenant. It doesn’t hurt that a young Walt Disney had his first job there as an animator back in the 1920s. They even have photos of Disney at his desk that they plan to display.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/29/35 ... rylink=cpy
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Downtown Crossroads Academy project in jeopardy
A city development agency delayed consideration of a proposal to double the size of the Crossroads Academy Wednesday, a postponement supporters say could scuttle their plan.

Phil Kirk, one of the major advocates for the plan by the charter school to purchase the Uhlmann Building at 1009 Central St. so it can double its size, said a decision by the Kansas City Tax Increment Financing Commission to postpone consideration until March could scuttle the deal to buy the property from the Uhlhmann Co.
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Downtown charter school wins support to double size
The Crossroads Academy’s plan to double its size by this fall with the help of $5.5 million in tax incentives was endorsed Monday by a city development agency. The fast-growing downtown charter school, which was founded two years ago in a former office building at 1015 Central St., wants to acquire the building next door at 1009 Central so it can expand to include middle school students.
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Evolving Downtown celebrates missing links: school, library
Dean Johnson, co-founder and executive director of Crossroads Academy, shared the story of a Kansas couple that looked all over the region for the best education for their children.

They ended up picking the downtown Kansas City charter school Johnson leads and plan to move to Downtown from across the state line before next school year, which will be Crossroad Academy's third.

"That's something we don't hear about too often — a family moving to the urban core because of the schools," Johnson said.

He was speaking during a Wednesday morning event celebrating Crossroads Academy's first two years plus the 10th anniversary of another institution supporting Downtown's growing residential population — now nearing 20,000.
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Construction begins on Crossroads Academy

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They already want to open a 2nd school. We toured this school last week and really liked it, I just hope we can get in. We liked the diversity but we also like that its project based learning rather than the worksheets and memorization type learning. I would like the 2nd school to actually open up in the Crossroads

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Curious that it's another elementary school and not a high school.
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When we toured last week, crossroads is actively looking to partner with another charter school to open a High School.
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brewcrew1000 wrote:When we toured last week, crossroads is actively looking to partner with another charter school to open a High School.
Do they have an identified partner? or just any other charter school?
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^^^ Academie Lafayette
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Freedom Academie! Bon!
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I am glad to see that the Crossroads Academy is doing so well and expanding...
Crossroads Academy merging with another charter school and plans to open new downtown high school


Crossroads will merge with Scuola Vita Nuova in July 2017

The new high school will open in 2018 at a yet-to-be determined site

Crossroads also plans to open a second elementary school this summer in the former United Way building on Quality Hill
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/governme ... rylink=cpy
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I'm glad to see the United Way building get a new tenant.

Now is the guessing game as to where the new downtown high school will be located. We only know at this point that it will be near the streetcar line.

My guesses are:

the Commerce Tower
The TenMain Center Tower
Partnership Place, formerly known as the Ozark National Life Building, and the Rialto Building, on the SW corner of 9th and Grand. It's owned by UMB.

Another choice would be the Mark Twain Tower if they could afford to buy and renovate it.

Another mostly empty building that seems to have no announced plans, or purpose, would be the Grand Avenue Temple office building on the SE corner of 9th and Grand.

It would be interesting to see a map indicating where the students of these academies are living.
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Scuola Vita Nuova and Crossroads Academy will not be merging after all.

According to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), the proposed merger of the two Kansas City charter schools is not allowed by Missouri’s current charter school law. Thus, both the merger and plans for the charters to open a high school together have been scrapped.
http://northeastnews.net/pages/?p=31412
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