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Rinck steps down from GR school board
Posted by The Grand Rapids Press October 01, 2007 19:45PM
Categories: Breaking News
Jim Rinck
GRAND RAPIDS -- In a surprise move, longtime Grand Rapids Public Schools board member Jim Rinck resigned tonight, taking a few parting shots at his colleagues.
Rinck, 49, said the school board is "not functioning as it should," and after 14.5 years he no longer can be a part of it.
While he praised Bernard Taylor as "one of the two best superintendents" he's worked with, the former school board president alluded to divisiveness among the board members.
"I would have done this sooner, but I wanted to stay because of Bernard," Rinck said after the meeting.
"He's a great superintendent and he needs a better board. I no longer felt I could be productive working with that board."
Rinck, a Calvin College graduate, works as an attorney.
He recently ran a failed campaign for Grand Rapids mayor, and said he also resigned from the Democratic Party. "I'm done with politics."
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