Leaders with Orange County Public Schools are celebrating after voters approved an extension of a half-cent sales tax to fund the district’s construction and renovation needs for the next 10 years.

Over 3,000 Orange County Public School students were at the Kia Center on Monday to celebrate their reading achievements with the Orlando Magic.

With students heading back to school soon in Orange County, the district is also facing some challenges to start the new school year.

Leaders with Orange County Public Schools push for a continuation of a half-cent sales tax to fund the district’s construction needs and renovations for the next 10 years.

Orange County is booming, but growth comes with a challenge. For the school district, it's keeping up with that growth.

The district said the raise will be paid retroactively to instructional personnel to the beginning of the school year.

Superintendent Maria Vazquez announced the upcoming changes during a Tuesday night meeting.

"A national crisis that's affecting so many of our schools and districts across the country" — that's how Orange County School Superintendent Maria Vazquez recently described absenteeism.

A special impasse hearing on Tuesday regarding a new contract for teachers in the Orange County school district ended with both sides reaching a deal.

Orange County Public Schools Superintendent Maria Vazquez is set to hold a news conference Thursday afternoon.

Orange County Public Schools will try out a new way to keep kids safe.

Ahead of the fall semester coming to a close across Orange County, more than 3400 families received free healthy food options.

A 15-year-old boy was arrested Saturday in connection to a drive-by shooting late last month in Orlando that caused the deaths of a 6-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man, according to police.

Officials say a 6-year-old girl, among three shot in the Carver Shores neighborhood of Orlando, has died.

As nearly 212,000 students went back to school in Orange County on Thursday, district leaders are talking about the changes they’re facing because of staffing shortages.

Media specialists have been working through the summer to make sure school and classroom libraries are up to new state standards.

Orange County schools and law enforcement officials are set to hold a back-to-school safety news conference on Monday morning.

New rules will be put into place Wednesday during a meeting led by the Florida Department of Education. Among the agenda items are topics including student pronouns and bathroom choices.

Three Pine Hills Elementary School students who were killed this year were honored during a prayer vigil at the campus.

Orange County Public Schools received a major donation from Walt Disney World.

A 9-year-old girl was one of three killed, including a News 13 reporter and 38-year-old woman, in Pine Hills shootings on Wednesday, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Orange County Public Schools is rolling out all-electric school buses and testing the viability of using the vehicles to meet transportation needs, the district announced Monday.

OCPS Superintendent Maria Vazquez said that information regarding disciplinary referrals will be released to the state before March 17.

A teacher was placed on administrative leave after “using his students as political props” in videos posted to social media, according to Orange County Public Schools.

Orange County Public Schools is looking at a new task force aimed at finding solutions to disciplinary issues throughout the district.

The new superintendent for Orange County Public Schools held a town hall Monday evening to hear from parents in the district.

More flooding is expected in Orange County as water levels crest over the coming days after Ian dumped rain across the area, according to Mayor Jerry Demings.

The superintendent for Orange County Public Schools is expected to meet next week with Florida Dept. of Education officials over concerns from a statewide grand jury that the district may have underreported incidents to the state.

Following the approval of Orange County Superintendent Designate Dr. Maria Vazquez earlier this summer, the next deputy superintendent was announced Friday evening.

Orange County's next superintendent greeted students at several campuses during her first back to school tour since being chosen as the district's next leader.

An emergency alert system that allows Orange County Public Schools employees to initiate a lockdown if there is a threat was among several topics discussed ahead of the school year.

From new education laws to enhancing school safety, it's been a busy summer for districts across Central Florida as they prepare for the upcoming school year.

Orange County Public Schools said it has a number of teacher vacancies to fill just five days away from the start of school.

News 6 sat down with the newly-selected superintendent of the Orange County Public School District. Dr. Maria Vazquez opened up about key topics like school security, the controversial parental rights in education Law, teacher raises and more.

The Orange County School Board unanimously voted for Dr. Maria Vazquez to be the district’s next superintendent on Tuesday.

Parents and the public had the opportunity to hear in-depth from the two finalists for Orange County Public Schools' superintendent position ahead of the school board's upcoming interviews.

Career and technical education used to be thought of in a very narrow way: an alternative to high schoolers who weren’t going to college.

As parents and students get ready for the new school year, we are still in a global pandemic, which may be causing some uncertainty ahead of the return to the classroom.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County Public Schools plans to keep all of its campuses open five days a week over the summer “because of extensive learning loss over the past 11 months,” according to an email sent out to district employees. “Our goal is to offer opportunities of full-day, being able to interweave art, music and physical education in order to engage our students,” Vazquez said. Meals will be provided for students attending summer school as well as transportation for students who live “outside our 2-mile radius and or our normal bus riders,” according to the deputy superintendent. The deputy superintendent said the school district will also be offering additional learning opportunities over spring break. “We are offering summer school in the month of June and the month of July, so we are going to offer teachers the opportunity to teach the entire summer, maybe they only want to teach June and have July off,” she said.