{"id":277422,"date":"2026-05-20T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277422\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:37:08","slug":"orange-county-to-launch-baseball-softball-microschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277422\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County to launch baseball, softball microschool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">Orange County Public Schools is going to launch a brand-new educational model designed to keep students enrolled in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning this August, the district is launching its very first &#8220;micro-school&#8221;\u2014a specialized academy operating right inside an existing campus\u2014and this program is built entirely for young baseball and softball players.<\/p>\n<p>The micro-school will operate out of Chaney Elementary School, using four to five classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The program will have 48 students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Essentially, they would have a 10U and 12U softball team and a 10U and 12U baseball team,&#8221; Dr. Border\u00a0explained.<\/p>\n<p>The academy will be staffed by two traditional academic teachers and two coaches.<\/p>\n<p>While students will receive the standard state-required elementary education curriculum, their athletic development will be integrated into the daily schedule across three phases.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;One\u00a0on the field work, both also in the classroom strategy work, but then also skill work which could also be done in a classroom, hitting off tees into nets,&#8221; Dr. Border said.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0May 19, 2026 7:11pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County Public Schools is going to launch a brand-new educational model designed to keep students enrolled in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-277422","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\/277422","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=277422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}