{"id":384729,"date":"2026-08-29T18:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384729\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:14:24","slug":"ocps-invites-students-families-to-wear-pink-and-read-in-honor-of-dolly-parton-wdbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384729\/","title":{"rendered":"OCPS invites students, families to wear pink and read in honor of Dolly Parton \u2013 WDBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u25b6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/on-demand\/orlando-morning-news-express\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/on-demand\/orlando-morning-news-express\/\">LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Orange County Public Schools is inviting students, teachers, staff, families and community members to wear pink and spend at least 10 minutes reading on Friday as part of a special tribute called \u201cPink &amp; Pages for Dolly.\u201d The district announced the initiative in recognition of Dolly Parton\u2019s contributions to literacy and her efforts to encourage children to develop a love of reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/news\/trending\/dolly-parton-watch-jack-white-play-jolene-memory-singer\/RTRUCTAPAND6HGZ3XSSMZ4JXME\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/news\/trending\/dolly-parton-watch-jack-white-play-jolene-memory-singer\/RTRUCTAPAND6HGZ3XSSMZ4JXME\/\">Dolly Parton: Watch Jack White play \u2018Jolene\u2019 in memory of singer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a social media post, OCPS highlighted Parton\u2019s Imagination Library program, which has provided more than 300 million books to children worldwide, including families in Orange County. The district is asking participants to honor her legacy by picking up a book, wearing pink and sharing photos from the event throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/news\/trending\/photos-dolly-parton\/F5Y4VSX2LNAOFKZXRCCVQOS4RU\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/news\/trending\/photos-dolly-parton\/F5Y4VSX2LNAOFKZXRCCVQOS4RU\/\">Dolly Parton Through The Years<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/fp\/download-wdbo-app-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/fp\/download-wdbo-app-today\/\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wdbo.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wdbo.com\/newsletters\/\">click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO Orange County Public Schools is inviting students, teachers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6029,6030,147,28,139,141,140,5597],"class_list":["post-384729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-580am","tag-am580","tag-central-florida","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-wdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384729","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=384729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}