FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) – Broward County Public Schools held a workshop in Fort Lauderdale to discuss tough decisions ahead of the upcoming school year.<\/p>\n
At the meeting, held Tuesday, school board members discussed declining enrollment, aging buildings, and whether some schools could be repurposed or consolidated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are trying to make sure we have a school system that can thrive, so we need to move in every direction to make that possible,\u201d said Broward School Board member Rebecca Thompson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were talking about how we are going to utilize a lot of these school properties that we previously voted to close and or repurpose. So what you heard was the superintendents plan or his intentions on what you\u2019re going to do with these properties,\u201d said Broward School Board member Adam Cervera.<\/p>\n
There have been numerous meetings<\/a> by Broward School Board to discuss low enrollment and decreased funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201c[Tuesday\u2019s] workshop was an update of our past Redefining Our Schools efforts, going over the progress made throughout the year to prepare our students for the start of our school year, for those schools that actually closed to some students, and also to talk about some of the properties that we have for lease or surplus to give the board an update on where they are,\u201d said BCPS Superintendent Dr. Howard Hepburn.<\/p>\n Hepburn also said they will also be talking about the schools that could be part of the \u201cre-defining phase three\u201d for next year, and said that the discussions on phase three will happen in August. <\/p>\n \u201cWhat transpired in the workshop is really a conversation with the board to give us some direction on where we\u2019re going to go with this year\u2019s redefining our schools process. It is very important for the community to know that this year\u2019s process, whatever comes our of this year\u2019s process will not take effect until the [2027-2028] school year.\u201d said Valerie Wanza, BCPS Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer.<\/p>\n BCPS members said these conversations are even more successful with input from the community.<\/p>\n \u201cThe one thing that we know is as we start to look at what we do differently with school buildings. We want the community to help us in determining what is the best next use for the community in that particular property,\u201d said Wanza.<\/p>\n As district officials prepare for this school year, discussions are already being had for the 27-28 school year. <\/p>\n A meeting is planned on August 25th for plans that will impact next school year. <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n \tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) – Broward County Public Schools held a workshop in Fort Lauderdale to discuss tough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-347747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347747","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=347747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}