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Carol Wynn-Green worked for the state of Florida for nearly 26 years and for Polk County Public Schools for more than 10. She was expecting to retire there. But in 2021, the 52-year-old equity and ...

The budget includes $10 million for Polk State College's planned Haines City-Davenport campus and $6.1 million for its ...

Among the funds released, Polk County Public Schools received $115.368 million to construct a new 2,500-student high school in Polk County’s Poinciana area, according to a staff analysis by the ...

The Polk County School Board voted 6-0 to approve a five-year contract for Superintendent Fred Heid, who will receive base pay of $283,000 a year.

POLK COUNTY, Fla — Polk County Public Schools district has tripled the number of its A schools. Improving school grades is just one of the continued goals for the district in the 2024-2025 year.

As a police officer and a father to students in the school system, he supports Lake Wales High School using a metal detector in the next school year.

His office will work with Polk County Public Schools on the district’s new bus camera program. By next school year, all of the county’s more than 500 school buses will have stop arm cameras.

Immunization reports from the Polk County Health Department show that of the nearly 89,000 students enrolled in Polk County schools for the 2024-25 school year, about 6% — or roughly 5,500 ...

Polk County commissioners approved the release of more than $115 million in educational impact fees on Tuesday for a new Poinciana area high school among other school projects to accommodate the ...