A few hundred parents and students packed the cafeteria at Brookside Middle School in Sarasota on Monday night to hear about the district’s plan to protect its public schools, after dozens of schools in the region were put on notice that a charter school chain intends to move in.
But anger repeatedly spilled over, and the sound of shouting and booing filled the auditorium as Superintendent Terry Connor tried to speak.
“We don’t want our schools to be co-located and occupied by a hope charter school,” Connor said, referring to notices received this month at Booker Elementary, Brookside Middle and Oak Park School…