Around a dozen DeWitt, Macon and Piatt County Schools are joining forces to create a strong band of partnerships to start up entrepeneurial opportunities for their high school students.
Cerro Gordo Schools are one of the latest among eleven schools to join together to create two groups of five and six schools in the creation of a CEO program. Superintendent Brett Robinson explains this program is taking off and they want to be a part of it.
Robinson indicates schools like Argenta-Oreana and Monticello will band together to create community support to help get the program off the ground.
Cerro Gordo became involved in the program through Monticello Schools. The original program was going to be a Monticello/Clinton partnership but their school leaders wanted to get more involved in the opportunity.
Robinson says they will probably need about two years to get the program ready and financed. He hopes to have it up and running by the 2019-2020 school year.
He feels it gives their students a leg up and a solid transition to the next stage of their lives.
