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View Article  OCCPTA Special Meeting on School Closures
OCCPTA will hold a Special General Meeting on Small School Closures

When: May 11, 2009
Where: ELC Building
445 W. Amelia Street
Orlando, FL 32801
Board Room
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

At this meeting we will discuss the pros and the cons of Small School Closures.
If you have any questions, please email Richard Bolam at 2ndVP@OCCPTA.org.   more »
View Article  Small School Closure Meeting May 6 at 6pm!
The Community Calendar included in the newsletter CORE sent out earlier today accurately reflected the OCPS calendar and list of meetings posted on its website.

The OCPS calendar was wrong.

In an effort to obtain additional information regarding the proposed small school closures/rezoning, CORE learned that there is ALSO a community meeting regarding this issue on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. That meeting is included on pupil placement's revised timeline, but is not listed on any OCPS calendar. CORE has learned that meeting will take place and will include information about the suggestions made by Nancy Robbinson at ...   more »
View Article  What we think: School group: Start over
Orlando Sentinel Editorial: April 29, 2009

Orange County School District officials still can't seem to fathom - or appreciate - their stunning neglect of a federally ordered biracial committee that went AWOL without anyone seeming to notice.

But at this point, the blame game is secondary to more pressing issues.

For starters, the school district needs a complete accounting of the committee's activities over the years. Did it meet when it was supposed to? Were zoning and attendance issues decided without the committee's input? How many meetings were held without a quorum? How many times were School Board members assured ...   more »