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Byline: Mara Rose Williams
Jul. 14--"We wanted to keep our promise to parents that the school would reopen, and we didn't want them to have to pay for it." Tomika Booker, president of the Southwest Charter board What may become the only free private school in Missouri is scheduled to open this fall in Kansas City. About 400 students from the former Southwest Charter School are enrolled in the new private school, Renaissance Academy of Math and Science, at 5000 E. 17th St. It won't cost the students or their families anything, said a spokesman for Imagine Schools of Arlington, Va., which will operate the school. Dennis Bakke, founder and president of Imagine, the nonprofit organization that was…