Mid-Michigan draws people from around the world because of MSU, and a refugee community.
"We have many immigrants, we have many refugees, we have many international visitors," explains Rebecca Schwartz, a teacher at A+ English Learning School.
But some of those people don't speak English.
Schwartz thinks that makes it harder for them to contribute to the community.
"Our goal is really that they either become citizens, or they get jobs, or they go to college," she says.
Right now, the school in East Lansing is serving more than 200 students from eastern China to the middle of Africa, but will have to shut its doors by June 30th if it can't find a new fiscal agent.
Only a handful of school districts are equipped to take the school on including LSD and Okemos, but no district has agreed to do it.
Okemos superintendent Catherine Ash says the district "struggled" with the fiscal oversight, and couldn't keep it up anymore.
Schwartz worries if the school closes, there won't be any options for people who need to learn the language:
"It would be a shame to be a refugee city with no English school at all."
