SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – Hundreds of worried students and parents turned out at the Sarasota County School Board meeting Tuesday, hoping to stop a suggested merger of two Sarasota schools.
The county is considering a proposal under the state’s “Schools of Hope” program, that allows privately operated, publicly funded charter schools to operate in public schools that are underutilized.
The plan would merge Brookside Middle School and Suncoast Polytechnical High School, leaving the high school facility vacant…