Polk County Public Schools (PCPS) has announced upcoming increases to varsity football ticket prices, marking the first adjustment since 2011. The new prices will take effect for the 2025-26 and ...

Officials say 'Alligator Alcatraz' is ready to withstand hurricane season, but tents leaked after one rainstorm ...

The big story: School districts and other organizations that serve children continued to assess the impact of the Trump ...

Records from Polk County Public Schools showed a rise of 69.2% in battery toward staff during the 2024-2025 school year.

Lawmakers spent much of the 2025 legislative session at odds with each other, causing several education bills to be delayed ...

All the data can be found at the FLDOE’s 2025 Florida Assessment of Student Thinking and B.E.S.T. Assessments page. For English Language Arts (ELA) and Math, school/county performance is measured as ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. - Lake Wales High School will be implementing a new safety measure this upcoming school year. A pair of ...

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

Florida lawmakers spent much of the 2025 legislative session at odds with each other, causing several education bills to be delayed until the last scheduled day of session and jammed into two major ...

Overall Polk County students improved in two-thirds of the categories, but fell in others. See how your school did.

Students at 19 public schools in Polk County will return in August to find new principals. That is actually fewer than in 2024, when 20 schools received newly assigned leaders.