{"id":207178,"date":"2026-03-26T17:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207178\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:46:10","slug":"retired-ocps-deputy-superintendent-to-run-for-school-board-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207178\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired OCPS deputy superintendent to run for school board chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h925381-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Dr. Mike Armbruster has thrown his hat in the ring for Orange County School Board Chair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h925381-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Armbruster retired from Orange County Public Schools as a deputy superintendent in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h925381-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The West Orange resident has served the district for more than 35 years, initially retiring after 33 years in 2020 but returning to the district in 2022 as a deputy superintendent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h925381-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Armbruster started his career as a teacher and coach and went on to become principal of West Orange High. He later opened Ocoee High, where he introduced the &#8220;house system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"h925381-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Armbruster is one of three candidates vying for chair of the board. The other candidates are current school board members Angie Gallo and Alicia Farrant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Mike Armbruster has thrown his hat in the ring for Orange County School Board Chair.\u00a0 Armbruster retired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-207178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}