The work of district leadership is not just doing the hard things, but capturing how they were done so others can do them too.

School resource officers, or SROs, were once common throughout the country. But many areas, primarily liberal leaning ones, began to question whether they were necessary. After lots of discussion around the region, some schools decided to move ahead and try something different.

Today's eighth-graders need close to a full academic year of additional instruction to catch up to their pre-pandemic peers in reading.

Orange County Public Schools expects to lose more than 3,000 students next year, largely to charter schools and homeschooling. Statewide, over 155,000 students were enrolled in Florida’s home education programs in 2023–24—a 46% increase in five years.