By: Erika Hobbs
Source: The Sentinel
About 200 angry teachers and parents, plus several politicians, pressed officials to save the schools in Orange County in a public hearing at district headquarters Wednesday night in Orlando. And the local NAACP chapter, a prominent political consultant and some private citizens say they are poised to sue the district to stop the closings.
The budget-cutting plan includes closing Hillcrest, Kaley, Grand Avenue, Richmond Heights, Maxey and Pine Castle elementaries and converting Howard and Carver middle schools to kindergarten-through-grade-eight campuses. The plan would move more than 7,000 children and rezone most of the county’s middle schools.
Orange School Closures would hurt gains by blacks, plan’s foes say
