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Evans High plans spur frustration: A School Board rift over the school's location and future irritates members of the community.

The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)

| May 05, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Orlando Sentinel. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Erika Hobbs

May 5--Members of the Orange County School Board are starting to backtrack on a promise to pull the failing Evans High School from its crime-ridden corner in Pine Hills and rebuild it on the site of a safer freshman center four miles away.

Instead, Chairwoman Karen Ardaman and Vice Chairman Jim Martin want to build two high schools, one at the ninth-grade center on Apopka-Vineland Road and one on the main campus on Silver Star Road. Both are reluctant to designate one "Evans."

Other board members strongly disagree. Last June, the board promised Evans students a fresh start in a new school, they say, and putting a new building on the old site would create yet another school pocketed in poverty.

The indecision became public Monday at a meeting where…

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