Although school boards control local schools, Florida’s State Board of Education increasingly has flexed its authority to push district decisions and actions. New education commissioner Anastasios ...

Students in Polk County’s public schools improved ... of Education. The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking tests cover nine academic subjects and levels: English language arts, algebra 1, algebra ...

Fourteen schools run by the district improved their grades in 2024-25, including five that improved from a D to a C. None of ...

Davenport Elementary in Florida, a Classical Revival building, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The state could arbitrarily move these benchmarks next year and then all of a sudden, Polk could be a ‘D’ or Polk could be an ...

Polk County Public Schools announced new principals at three high schools, 14 elementary schools, a traditional middle school ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — After Polk County School Board members decided to eliminate Polk Virtual School, some Polk County families say they’re left scrambling for options for next school year. One ...

Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone is continuing to dig into Florida’s controversial new school bus camera program and learns one major school district just suspended the program all together.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Walking up the historical stairs at the Polk County Historical Museum is the curator of exhibitions, Bartholomew Delcamp. While that might be his official title with the ...

Florida Southern College is dedicated to providing a high-quality, personalized education, and the School of Education is setting a new standard for education in Polk County.

Educators in Polk County are getting a historic raise after eight months of bargaining between the school district and teachers union.

For the first time in Polk State College’s history, all three of its collegiate high schools have earned “A” grades from the Florida Department of Education for the 2024–2025 academic year. Polk State ...