Orange to move over 100 school teachers as enrollment dips

More than 100 Orange County Public School teachers will be pulled from their schools and reassigned to others this month as the district works to manage a loss of almost 7,000 students this year .

But with 116 teachers now “unassigned” — meaning they are not needed at their current school because of enrollment drops — and about 150 vacant instructional positions, OCPS expects no teachers will be out of a job, Superintendent Maria Vazquez said at Tuesday evening’s school board meeting.

It’s unclear how many of the soon-to-be-moved teachers come from elementary, middle or high schools, but the vast majority of the enrollment loss is in the county’s elementary schools.

The district also has imposed a hiring freeze, Vazquez said.

Central Florida’s largest school district predicted a loss