{"id":381704,"date":"2026-08-26T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381704\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:36:08","slug":"schools-of-hope-charter-plans-stirring-broward-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381704\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools of Hope charter plans stirring Broward debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Broward School Board debates closing more schools in the effort to right-size the shrinking district, they face another challenge \u2014 Schools of Hope charters moving into their facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Howard Hepburn proposed the board to close 10 schools at a workshop Tuesday, including William Dandy Middle in Fort Lauderdale, a school where a Schools of Hope charter school plans to move in.<\/p>\n<p>KIPP Legacy School, a charter school, will begin operating in a portion of Dandy Middle starting in the 2027-28 school year under Florida\u2019s newly expanded \u201cSchools of Hope\u201d law, board member Jeff Holness said in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/broward\/article317002482.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story at MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Broward School Board debates closing more schools in the effort to right-size the shrinking district, they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[113,249,251,250,114,115,109],"class_list":["post-381704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-education","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381704","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=381704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}