Leon County\u2019s district says its schools are about 6-thousand students under capacity, largely because of students opting into a state program that helps them pay to attend private or charter schools. <\/p>\n
But now other learning institutions are hoping to use some of the district\u2019s extra space.<\/p>\n
Leon County Head Start Director Daryl James says his program needs space for its kids.<\/p>\n
“We have here in Leon County 322 slots that we would like to put into Leon County schools if we could.”<\/p>\n
And Rita Brown, founder of the private Brownsville Preparatory Institute, says she\u2019d like to lease some of that unused space as well.<\/p>\n
“This is the right moment for the district to capitalize on underutilized space and generate in a way that’s sustainable in the future.”<\/p>\n
School Board member Alva Smith thinks it\u2019s worth exploring. Especially since under the state\u2019s newly expanded Schools of Hope program, Charter schools could at some point co-locate with the public schools\u2014at the district\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n
“So instead of a charter coming in that we know nothing about, we want to look at some homegrown successful programs that we know have a great history in our community, that are supported by our community and are seeing educational achievement. Schools like Brownsville.”<\/p>\n
The board asked Superintendent Rocky Hanna to come up with ideas on how Head Start and Brownsville could lease the district’s excess space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leon County\u2019s district says its schools are about 6-thousand students under capacity, largely because of students opting into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-54681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54681","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=54681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}