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Orange County Public School employees who get the COVID-19 vaccine by October 31st and provide a copy of their vaccination card stand to earn $200 dollars.

Orange County Public Schools' Food & Nutrition Services is looking to hire more than 200 employees ahead of the new school year.

Orange County Public Schools says it hasn’t made a decision yet whether face masks will be mandatory in schools next year.

The clinics at Colonial High, East River High, Freedom High, Oak Ridge High and Ocoee High will run from 9 am until 4 pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Orange County Public Schools has launched its own COVID-19 online dashboard to track confirmed cases across its 202 schools and its district offices.

The Orange County School Board just voted to approve next year’s budget. Included in the budget- extra funding for School Resource Officers. Activists say putting additional resource officers in schools elevates the risk of over-policing.

Orange County Public Schools is closing the Olympia High School campus for two weeks because of a cluster of coronavirus cases. OCPS said 922 face to face students will be shifted to online classes from Tuesday Sept. 8th until Friday September 18th.

Orange County Public Schools says enrollment is down - about 18,000 students fewer than the 209,000 students projected for the year. OCPS superintendent Barbara Jenkins said the district is “not on the brink of laying off large numbers of employees.”

Orlando is rolling out a new rental assistance program for residents affected by the recession.

Orange County Public Schools leaders say there won’t be any immediate changes at schools as a lawsuit aimed at keeping schools closed winds through the courts.