Timothy Coon was Polk County's first Black judge, a retired Air Force Reserve officer, an avid golfer, a married man of 48 ...

The increased fee only applies to volunteers whose activities involve contact with students out of sight of a district staff ...

The proposal from Fortress Secured LLC set a total project cost of $182.2 million and a construction timeline of 22 months ...

The Polk Education Association president is urging the Polk County School Board to consider a property tax referendum to ...

Polk County ... Florida Legislature in 2023, elevates the screening of volunteers from Level 1 to Level 2, which entails fingerprinting for criminal background checks. During Tuesday’s School ...

Polk County Public Schools reopened the volunteer renewal and application process for volunteers needing a Level 1 screening on Monday. Vaccines Doctors concerned about drop in childhood vaccination ...

Polk County’s level of immunization for kindergartners dropped from 96.3% in 2021 to 93.2% in 2023, still above the statewide rate of 90.6%.

With millions of federal dollars flowing into Florida schools and universities, for projects ranging from early education through post-doctoral research, leaders scrambled to figure out what exactly ...

The big story: The Trump Administration is spurring a flurry of activity in Florida schools ... Volunteers: Many Polk County school volunteers will be able to avoid the school district’s ...

POLK COUNTY ... 220-1116. School bus cameras have caught thousands of drivers in Florida blowing past stop signs. I-Team Investigator Katie LaGrone found that one county is preventing drivers ...

As a historic winter storm races across North Florida, Polk County should escape freezing temperatures and snowfall through Saturday. But it hasn't been this frigid in January in a decade.

A Florida driver fast asleep beside a store’s gas pumps turned violent when awakened and bit a deputy’s K-9 partner on the ...