{"id":82800,"date":"2025-12-14T05:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/82800\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T05:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:09:06","slug":"the-leon-school-district-ramps-up-its-program-to-lease-surplus-space-to-the-areas-displaced-head-start-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/82800\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leon School District ramps up its program to lease surplus space to the area&#8217;s displaced Head Start program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Leon County School District is moving full-speed-ahead to bring the county&#8217;s displaced Head Start program into elementary schools that have unused space as enrollment numbers decline. Brooke Brunner, the district&#8217;s Early Childhood programs head, provided an update to school board members at their Dec. 8 agenda meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This expansion includes an additional classroom at Pineview Elementary, three classrooms at Hartsfield Elementary &#8211; including an office space &#8211; and then a classroom at Sabal Palm with an office space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brunner said other Title One elementary schools with surplus room will be accepting Head Start tenants in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next year we expect to expand even more Head Start classrooms into our public schools. So this lease mirrors other previous leases that we&#8217;ve had with Head Start, so we&#8217;re real excited to kick this off in January.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By taking Head Start into underutilized schools, the district is hoping to prevent the Florida Department of Education to force private and charter &#8220;Schools of Hope&#8221; to co-locate in public schools that have more space than students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leon County School District is moving full-speed-ahead to bring the county&#8217;s displaced Head Start program into elementary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-82800","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\/82800","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=82800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}