Polk County Public Schools improved its graduation rate by nearly four percentage points last year, but the district remains in the state’s bottom 10. The Florida Department of Education this ...

Not all volunteers will face an increase in application fees to nearly $100, as it appeared would be the case when Polk County Public Schools issued an announcement in December. The district ...

Polk County Public Schools is launching its second attempt to find a successor to its longtime attorney, Wes Bridges, who retired last year. School Board members received a briefing at their Jan. 14 ...

Polk County Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid offered some welcome news for school volunteers. Not all volunteers will face an increase in application fees to nearly $100, as it appeared would be ...

Polk County Public Schools is launching its second attempt to find a successor to its longtime attorney, Wes Bridges, who retired last year. School Board members received a briefing at their Jan ...

Polk County schools are seeing a significant rise in student absences due to illness. Fourteen schools throughout Polk County have reported sick absence rates greater than 10% at least one day so ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Margie Patterson has had many drivers illegally blow past her school bus in her nearly 40 years of being bus driver with Polk County Public Schools. “There are a lot, I ...

Polk County Schools are shifting to virtual learning while the district deals with a spike in flu and norovirus cases. The county says that more than 10% of the student population at each of its ...

Polk County will hold a public hearing Feb. 10 for a franchise for the proposed regional solid waste transfer facility in Rickreall. The public can testify in person at the hearing scheduled to ...

Polk County Public Schools installed cameras on all buses to catch drivers illegally passing stopped school buses. Over 6,250 citations were issued in less than four months, generating over $1.4 ...

(WKYT) - For today’s Good Question, Craig asks: “Why do schools now have a sign posted ‘A Fayette County Public School?’” The purpose of those signs is to differentiate them from private ...