Underenrollment and school closures have drawn heated debates, countless community input meetings and carefully drawn rezoning maps this year in Alachua County. But those issues aren’t unique to Alachua. The Florida Parent Teacher Association hosted a Zoom meeting Saturday morning to discuss the trend of school closures across the state.
Board members from Pinellas, Orange and Broward Counties attended the meeting to share how declining birth rates and the shift of students to private and charter schools have decreased public school enrollment and necessitated the closure of schools.
Alachua County Public Schools…