| Fruitville Elementary School: Designed For The Future The challenges of education are not limited to factors within the curriculum, especially for the students enrolled in the autism department at Fruitville Elementary in Sarasota, Florida. According to the Fruitville Elementary website, the school traces its roots to a 19th-century one-room schoolhouse. As it exists now though the school is almost 80 years old and home to one of the best special-needs programs of its kind in Sarasota county. Yet according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, during the 2014-15 school year, the approximately 50 Fruitville students enrolled in the eight autism classes inhabited what the school called a “portable city” consisting of 18 modules of portable classrooms on the south and east sides of the school’s campus due to lack of space on campus. READ MORE |
