Q. Polk County School District is giving the vaccine starting with the middle schools. I was told that they are the "most" at risk but everything I'm reading would point more to the elementary school age children. Do you have anything that supports the middle school age children being more at risk? - Kim, Winter Haven ...more

November 10, 2009

A circuit judge on Wednesday threw out a complaint seeking to reinstate forfeited football games at Kathleen High School, saying he didn't think the state acted improperly or that the losing season will economically affect the team's players. ...more

November 5, 2009

It's a practiced art among most middle school boys: passing gas and blaming it on someone nearby. ...more

March 20, 2009

A reading teacher and food service manager were honored Thursday night by the Polk County School District. ...more

February 12, 2009

The Polk County School District has placed four people on leave while it investigates activities in the school board's facilities division, the district superintendent announced today. ...more

November 18, 2008

BARTOW - Deputies are looking for whoever broke into the Polk County School Board's garage Saturday, taking about $15,000 worth of new tires and rims. ...more

June 23, 2008

TAMPA - The Polk County School Board has received a federal grant of nearly $197,000 for school-based random-drug-testing programs, officials said. ...more

June 6, 2008

TAMPA - A West Palm Beach attorney says she is representing three boys who accused a Polk County schoolteacher of having sex with them. ...more

June 6, 2008

AVON PARK — There's dress for success and dress to impress, but next year at Park Elementary, it will be dress to behave your best, as the school introduces a standardized dress code. Park Elementary Principal Brenda Longshore said Tuesday, "we are just hoping that it will help us create a better learning environment and that we will be able to reduce the discipline referrals and that it will create a positive school culture." Last summer, several parents suggested a standardized dress code for students. During a visit to a Polk County school this year, Park Elementary staff members inquired about the countywide dress code and were very impressed with it, Longshore said. ...more

May 20, 2008

A 16-year-old Kathleen High School student was accused by deputies today of cutting another student in the neck with a box cutter razor, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

May 8, 2008