{"id":51391,"date":"2024-10-27T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T03:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=51391"},"modified":"2024-10-27T23:49:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T03:49:14","slug":"principal-at-leesburg-high-school-arrested-on-dui-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/10\/27\/principal-at-leesburg-high-school-arrested-on-dui-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Principal at Leesburg High School arrested on DUI charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Randolph was booked at the Lake County Jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The principal of Leesburg High School has been arrested on a drunk driving charge.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"7f4c32\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Michael-Randolph-was-booked-at-the-Lake-County-Jail-225x300-1-jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51392 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7f4c32; width:317px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael A. Randolph, 38, was arrested at 2:30 a.m. Saturday by the Clermont Police Department on a second-degree misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence. He was booked at the Lake County Jail and released after posting a $1,000 bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was named principal of LHS in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was profiled earlier this year in Education Week, which credited him with improving the school\u2019s graduation rate from 67 percent to 88.9 percent. That is slightly better than the state\u2019s average graduation rate of 88 percent. Eighty percent of the school\u2019s nearly 1,800 students are identified as \u201ceconomically disadvantaged\u201d by the Florida Department of Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Randolph holds degrees from Salisbury University, University of Maryland and University of Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Randolph was booked at the Lake County Jail. The principal of Leesburg High School has been arrested on a drunk driving charge. Michael A. Randolph, 38, was arrested at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":51392,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Michael-Randolph-was-booked-at-the-Lake-County-Jail-225x300-1-jpg.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[10178],"class_list":["post-51391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-principal-at-leesburg-high-school-arrested-on-dui-charge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51393,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51391\/revisions\/51393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}