{"id":355700,"date":"2026-07-29T02:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355700\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:02:06","slug":"orange-county-district-oks-e-bike-ban-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355700\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County district OKs e-bike ban for schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-Bike (Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 E-bikes and e-scooters are now off-limits for some Orange County Public Schools students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">School board members approved the policy on Tuesday night, banning elementary-school students from bringing e-bikes or e-scooters on school property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Under these new rules, other students are still allowed to use the devices on campus, but only if they follow specific rules, such as having a valid driver\u2019s permit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The district\u2019s regulations outline requirements for where the devices can be used and stored, along with additional expectations for student riders. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorAnthony Talcott headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/team\/MD8EZ7SZ4M3DA2IC1LP1S3T9LX\/\" title=\"View Anthony Talcott&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Talcott<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Anthony, a graduate of the University of Florida, joined ClickOrlando.com in April 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"E-Bike (Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.) ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 E-bikes and e-scooters are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7071,113,28,1335,139,141,140,4348],"class_list":["post-355700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-children","tag-education","tag-florida","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355700","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=355700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}