Florida Union Free School District is a school district

School district

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 in the village of Florida

Florida, Orange County, New York

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, in Orange County

Orange County, New York

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 in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of New York

New York

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The superintendent of schools is Douglas Burnside.

Board of education

The elected board of education consists of the following people:

• Daniel A. Codi, President
• Karyn Meier, Vice President
• Robert W. Katulak
• John T. Redman II
• Deborah Slesinski

Schools

The district operates

• a high school, the S.S. Seward Institute
  S. S. Seward Institute
  S. S. Seward Institute is the secondary school in the Florida Union Free School District in Orange County, New York, USA. It is located along Main Street in the village of Florida and referred to locally as just "Seward"....
  
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• an elementary school, Golden Hill Elementary School, and
• a Special Programs unit.

Legal issues

The district was a party in the court case dealing called Walczak v. Florida Union Free School District dealing with free appropriate public education in which a court ruled that children are not entitled to the best education that money can buy; they are only entitled to an appropriate education.