Neighborhood Educational Opportunities is done weighing its options for New Vistas High School when founder Rebecca Reiner retires.
Options Schools will take over the adult high school soon after being a partner with NEO for years.
Scott Williams, vice president of Craftsman Community Maker Labs of Indiana, is also on NEO’s board. The Craftsman organization is developing a makerspace in what Reiner calls “the cavern,” part of the old Camelot Lanes bowling alley off U.S. 6 near County Line Road.
NEO was established 14 years ago after Portage Township Schools closed its adult education facility in the former Garyton School.
“We were one of the first charter schools authorized by the state in 2002,” Williams said.
“We’re small, and it’s really hard to compete,” Reiner said.
Options is subsuming NEO, keeping the NEO name but operating under the Options umbrella. “NEO…
