ORLANDO, Fla. -- Change is coming to Orange County after a WESH NewsChannel 2 investigation uncovered money being wasted.

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School Supplies, Furniture Found Discarded In School

WESH NewsChannel first showed all kinds of perfectly usable stuff inside Glenridge Middle School Wednesday, but it was on the verge of being demolished with the rest of the school.

Orange County school workers are taking another look at everything left behind in Glenridge Middle School: Furniture, teaching supplies, unused paper and chalk were all labeled worthless and left in classrooms that will be torn down.

"It wasn't acceptable. It's not acceptable to see that we didn't take care of all the things we should have taken care of last year," District Operations Chief Nick Gledich said.

Why did it happen?

"My only answer to that is I wasn't aware of it, but we definitely have somebody working on it right now, and we're going to get to the bottom of it and take the appropriate action when we find out," school superintendent Ron Blocker said.

Gledich toured the school after a WESH NewsChannel 2 investigation exposed the situation.

"You saw some of the chairs and desks in good condition, that would be useful, those items should have been brought back," Gledich said.

Crews spent Thursday loading up a truck with hundreds of reusable items.

It will all be brought to the district's warehouse. It's there, in the surplus store, that filing cabinets are sold for about $12. Chairs can go for around $7. Student desks sell for about $15.

The Orange County school district is growing so fast they'll need about 700 new portables when school starts this year.

"We're going to need as much furniture as possible. If the furniture is usable, we're going to use it," Blocker said.

What the district doesn't want will be donated to charities or community groups instead of being thrown away.

Orange County plans to develop new criteria for discarding supplies and furniture, and they'll look at ways to donate the items they don't want.

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