The fee of $84 an hour paid to the Polk County Sheriff's Office covers the salary of a deputy, plus benefits, capital and ...

The Polk Education Association (PEA) and Polk County Public Schools reached a tentative agreement that could grant raises up to 7% for school employees. The agreement includes a $25 million pay ...

Polk County Public Schools will receive $100,000 from the Florida Disaster Fund for relief from Hurricane Milton. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the award of $7.8 million in additional ...

A final tally from Tuesday's special election overwhelmingly showed Polk County voters are not for county schools taking out ...

Oregon’s Common School Fund will send $76.8 million to the state’s K-12 public school districts, including $1.1 million to ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Educators in Polk County are getting a historic raise after eight months of bargaining between the school district and teachers union. For teachers like Nadia Hernandez ...

BARTOW, Fla. (WFLA) — Following months of negotiations and recent rallying cries from retired educators, Polk County Public Schools and the local teachers’ union announced Thursday they were ...

Polk County’s children are at a disadvantage when it comes to learning, according to the latest Child Well-Being Index by the ...

as well as 15 schools from Canada. “It doesn’t get any better, the baseball being played is tremendous, the weather down here is awesome, and Polk County, Visit Central Florida Sports ...

Employees of Polk County Public Schools are on the verge of new contracts that could provide raises of up to 7%. Leaders from the school district and the Polk Education Association signed a ...