โAgriculture is in everything:โ Why Orange County is expanding agriscience classes
In 2018, Orange County Public Schools committed to bringing agriscience back into schools. Now every public high school in Orange County offers it as an elective. Agriscience is now in 11 middle schools, with an initiative to expand it to every middle school.
Orange County students get opportunity to earn money, learn a trade after high school
For a lot of high school students, the next step involves college or the military, but for people looking for another path, a registered apprenticeship offers a cost-free way to earn money while learning a skilled trade.
Short on bus drivers, Orange County district asks parents to drive kids to first day of school
Orange County Public Schools placed a call to student families urging parents to drive their children to their first day of classes Thursday, if they could, in order lessen the local impact of a nationwide bus driver shortage.
Florida teacher accused of using students as โpolitical propsโ will keep job, school board says
A Central Florida middle school teacher suspended earlier this year, accused by his school district of using students as โpolitical propsโ in TikTok skits referencing current events, will not be fired after all.
Orange County teacher receives support, backlash over controversial TikTok videos
The videos featured students in a variety of skits, including one satirizing alleged attempts at book bans by the state and another that features several students bowing down a trio of Black students for Black History Month.
โInflammatory and sexualized:โ Florida pushes school districts to drop CDC youth risk survey
Orange County Public Schools will no longer participate in an annual national study charting risky behaviors in students, according to correspondence from the Florida Department of Education thanking the district for the change and criticizing the survey.
Students from hurricane-damaged Riverdale Elementary resume classes at high school
Riverdale Elementary students will return to class Thursday morning at a high school seven miles away because officials with Orange County Public Schools believe the building, which sustained significant flood damage from Hurricane Ian, is still unsafe.
Orange County Public Schools look at security policies in wake of Texas school shooting
The school board for Orange County Public Schools held a workshop Tuesday to discuss their safety program and, in the wake of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, board members had a lot of questions regarding their policies.
Students react to Texas mass shooting, call on lawmakers to focus on gun control
Orange County Public Schools students and supporters said state leaders need to get their priorities straight. Students questioned why politicians are exerting more energy to ban books and curriculum than to stop gun violence in schools.