Duval County school district officials are “having meetings” with members of the state legislative delegation and will travel to Tallahassee this month to “engage with them privately in their offices” about changing the Schools of Hope charter school program, Superintendent Chris Bernier said Monday.
At a town hall meeting at Riverside High School, Bernier flipped through a slide deck that showed districtwide enrollment is down — something he partly attributed to a declining birthrate.
“You have enrollment issues. And it’s not just about taking kids from charters. There’s less kids coming,” Bernier said. “All these things are starting to pile on your superintendent, and he’s trying to figure out a way to navigate through this.”…