Polk County Schools paraprofessionals and support staff get raises retroactive to July 1. ... At least 16 Polk County Public Schools teachers, staff have died of COVID-19 since the start of school.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $3 million for an emergency operations center and fire facility in Haines City and $1 ...

Trustees voted 5-1 to approve a new contract for Polk State College President Angela Garcia Falconetti. Only Ashley Bell ...

Polk County Public Schools also announced that Ervie Louis, a paraeducator at Jewett School of the Arts, is the district’s School-Related Employee of the Year.

The Polk County School Board approved raises Tuesday across the district for its educators and support staff, providing starting teachers with $47,500 and a minimum of a 2.25% in pay increases for ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Some teachers and staff members working for Polk County Public Schools filed a complaint against the school district amid claimed ongoing AC unit issues a day before of the ...

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 ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — As schools across Florida continue to look for teachers, Polk County Public Schools announced it will look overseas for new staff. “The Puerto Rican population here in Polk ...

It’s too hot to teach in “sweltering” Polk County school classrooms, the county's teachers union said Thursday as it announced a grievance has been filed with the district over broken or ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Recruiters are heading to Puerto Rico to find people interested in living and working in Polk County. Polk County Public Schools needs teachers and school staff.

As COVID-19 activity spikes statewide, Polk County schools are seeing a rise in student and staff absences because of respiratory illnesses. Polk County Health Department officials say over the ...