Here is an interesting chart showing annual operating costs for Orange County's small schools. The chart includes year schools opened, acerage, sales tax, student enrollment, operating costs per student, annual operating costs and special programs.
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Students from across the country participate in a rally they call the March on Washington to Save Brown v. Board of Education -- the decision that banned school segregation more than half a century ago. (By Melina Mara -- The Washington Post)

Court Hears Cases on Schools and Race
Diversity Plans Challenged In Name of Equal Protection

By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 5, 2006; Page A03

Supreme Court deliberations are private, but yesterday's oral arguments on whether it is constitutional to allow school systems to use race in making school assignments became as much a public ...   more »

Please assist with the letter writing campaign to the Orange County School Board. These letters should be as personal as possible, but with the facts pertaining to community schools mergers/ closures. We have compiled a list of ideas (below) that may be of use to you as you write your letters to our elected School Board Members and our Superintendent.

The addresses of all are listed below also along with their email addresses...use them as you wish.

Please feel free to duplicate this information and hand it out to your friends, community and family who share our concerns and ask ...   more »

A community school meeting will be held tonight at 7:00 pm, December 4th, at First Christian Church Orlando gymnasium, located at 2565 E. Kaley Avenue, Orlando. Rick Roach is scheduled to attend and address our community and answer questions.   more »

OCSB DISCUSSES POSSIBLE SCHOOL CLOSURES

On October 30, 2006, the Orange County School Board held the latest in a series of workshops focused on "unitary status." Due to court orders dating from as early as the 1960s, the Orange County School Board has been working towards obtaining unitary status for all its schools to eliminate all vestiges of discrimination and inequality in the areas of school assignment, faculty qualifications, transportation, facilities, educational programs and extracurricular activities. The focus of their discussion at this workshop was the area of facilities.

Previously, the OCSB adopted an "ideal" elementary school size of 830 ...   more »