With 39 reduced-scoring universities, Hillsborough is a concentrate on for Florida’s latest preference method
For a lot more than 60 years, Robles Elementary Faculty has served a modest north Tampa group — but not the entire local community.
Less than 50 % the small children who could go to Robles get their schooling there, according to a Hillsborough County College District report. Close to 100 students opted in the final university calendar year for Woodmont, a charter faculty in nearby Temple Terrace managed by a for-income enterprise in Fort Lauderdale. Hundreds additional went to district-run magnets, or community educational facilities with seats to spare.
Multiply Robles by 39 campuses in similar straits, and you have a county that is floor zero for the state’s Schools of Hope plan, the newest problem to classic community education and learning in Florida.
![The cluster of red dots showing "persistently low performing" schools in Hillsborough County shows how the district may be impacted by Florida's "Schools of Hope" initiative. The program allows "hope operators" to open charter schools within five miles of any of these schools, with virtually no oversight by the School Board. Six schools are not shown.](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 1237 816"/%3E "The cluster of red dots showing \"persistently low performing\" schools in Hillsborough County shows how the district may be impacted by Florida's \"Schools of Hope\" initiative. The program allows \"hope operators\" to open charter schools within five miles of any of these schools, with virtually no oversight by the School Board. Six schools are not shown.")