AnnArbor.com

Ypsilanti Public Schools’ New Tech High School will serve as one of 30 demonstration sites in the entire United States for prospective New Tech schools during the 2011-12 school year.

Cory McElmeel, director of Ypsilanti New Tech High School @ Ardis, said being considered among the New Tech model schools was another step in the development of the school, which opened at the beginning of the 2010-11 school year.

“With any new program there will be growing pains, however our team of educators and staff worked exceptionally hard to create a strong and viable model that will now serve as an example to others,” McElmeel said in a statement.