{"id":2835,"date":"2025-01-31T13:21:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:21:48","slug":"poinciana-high-school-farther-from-state-park-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"Poinciana High School Farther From State Park Advances"},"content":{"rendered":"Earlier this week the Polk County School Board voted unanimously to authorize the district&#8217;s staff to proceed with negotiations for a site on a private ranch adjacent to Poinciana for a new high school.<br \/>The school siting issue, which has been under discussion for some time, is needed to relieve overcrowding in fast-growing northeast Polk area.<br \/>If negotiations are successful, this will put an end to years of controversy over the site selection process.<br \/>Two other proposed sites drew criticism for being too close to Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek State Park and other conservation lands and being located along a key link in a portion of the Florida wildlife corridor.<br \/>The proposed site contains some wetlands, which board members were told will be used to mount an environmental studies program at the new school.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week the Polk County School Board voted unanimously to authorize the district&#8217;s staff to proceed with negotiations for a site on a private ranch adjacent to Poinciana for a new high school.The school siting issue, which has been under discussion for some time, is needed to relieve overcrowding in fast-growing northeast Polk area.If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}