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Sarasota school board praises plan to curb charter takeovers, but questions remain
UPDATE: Sarasota County School Board members unanimously voted on Friday to support the district’s strategic plan to reduce vacant space in wake of new legislation that threatened to make unused public school space available [...]
‘Schools of Hope’ law eyes underused public schools. But charters have empty seats, too
Florida’s new charter-school law promised to open more classrooms for kids. In Sarasota County, where enrollment has stalled and desks are supposedly sitting empty, it could just end up spreading school resources even thinner. [...]
Charter filing at Sarasota’s Oak Park raises questions about special-needs services
When one of Florida’s largest charter school networks set its sights on Oak Park School — Sarasota County’s only K-12 campus dedicated to students with disabilities — it brought the state’s charter-school push into [...]
Most Suncoast lawmakers quiet as charter school expansion fuels local upheaval
The same Suncoast lawmakers who voted earlier this year to let charter schools move into underused public campuses have stayed quiet as a Miami-based charter operator’s early push to occupy local schools set off [...]
When you gotta go… don’t go to Sarasota City Hall
Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now? If you’re inside Sarasota’s City Hall building, better hope you can hold it. For more than a year, the city’s first-floor bathrooms have been out of [...]
