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Jessica Fredricks is known for her ability to inspire connections and learning through drumming, but at one point in her teaching career, her drums were locked in a closet. → Read More
Jessica Fredricks is known for her ability to inspire connections and learning through drumming, but at one point in her teaching career, her drums were locked in a closet. → Read More
Jessica Fredricks is known for her ability to inspire connections and learning through drumming, but at one point in her teaching career, her drums were locked in a closet. → Read More
Program brings children to U.S. to improve their English, learn about America → Read More
Program brings children to U.S. to improve their English, learn about America → Read More
Program brings children to U.S. to improve their English, learn about America → Read More
A Lawton Chiles Middle Academy father has been served with a trespass notice, saying he is no longer allowed on Polk County School District property except to drop off and pick up his son from school. → Read More
Program brings children to U.S. to improve their English, learn about America → Read More
A Lawton Chiles Middle Academy father has been served with a trespass notice, saying he is no longer allowed on Polk County School District property except to drop off and pick up his son from school. → Read More
College for Every Student exposes children to college who are from low socioeconomic families or who would be the first generation in their families to go to college. → Read More
LAKE ALFRED — A Discovery Academy teacher is suspended after being arrested Sunday and charged with driving under the influence.Mauricus Green, 41, was driving his 2008 black Dodge Charger east on Interstate 4 in Lakeland about 3:50 a.m. when a Florida Highway Patrol officer observed the vehicle drifting in and out of lanes and braking abruptly, according to an arrest report.The officer… → Read More
LAKE ALFRED — A Discovery Academy teacher is suspended after being arrested Sunday and charged with driving under the influence.Mauricus Green, 41, was driving his 2008 black Dodge Charger east on Interstate 4 in Lakeland about 3:50 a.m. when a Florida Highway Patrol officer observed the vehicle drifting in and out of lanes and braking abruptly, according to an arrest report.The officer… → Read More
The Polk County School District is still calculating how many students attended classes on the first day of school, but had accounted for 90,528 by Thursday afternoon. → Read More
The Polk County School District is still calculating how many students attended classes on the first day of school, but had accounted for 90,528 by Thursday afternoon. → Read More
Principal Brian Andrews learned about it Wednesday evening and immediately pulled the plug. → Read More
BARTOW — Students in about more than 100 Polk County classrooms are expected to be without teachers on the first day of school Thursday.That's significantly less than the 430 teacher vacancies the School District faced about this time last year. Part of that shortage was attributed to a mass exodus of teachers through the Deferred Retirement Option Program."But it is very stressful," said Teddra… → Read More
A special magistrate on Monday recommended that the Polk County School District give its teachers, paraeducators and support staff a 2 percent wage increase. → Read More
A special magistrate on Monday recommended that the Polk County School District give its teachers, paraeducators and support staff a 2 percent wage increase. → Read More
BARTOW — A special magistrate on Monday recommended that the Polk County School District give its teachers, paraeducators and support staff a 2 percent wage increase.That was one of a handful of recommendations on issues the Polk Education Association and the district have been arguing for more than a year in 2016-17 bargaining negotiations."We are pleased all the way around," PEA President… → Read More
Polk County School Board member Billy Townsend wants a policy that prevents employees in romantic relationships from supervising each other. → Read More