Only two days into the school year, teachers, parents and students from Wyomina Park Elementary in Ocala stood in a circle, holding hands and praying just minutes before the Marion County School Board meeting began.
They were part of a sea of red-and-black shirts. Wyomina Park was the only school to turn out in large numbers for the meeting.
MCPS approved its “Future-Focused Operations Plan,” which calls for reducing the number of elementary schools by four over the next five years…