A teenanger was taken into custody in Newton while the police continue to investigate threats in the Southeast Polk Community ...

A reported threat to Southeast Polk Middle and Junior High School was deemed not credible Thursday. A reported threat circulated on social media Thursday morning. But in a letter to parents, district ...

This past week was Week 3 of the Iowa High School football season. There were several big games that took place. Ankeny upset ...

Venecia Arias-Gowdy and Alexia Gardner of North Lakeland Elementary are finalists for Polk County teacher and employee of the ...

Heather Carlson and Lenord Washington are finalists from District 2 for Polk County teacher of the year and school-related ...

Polk County ... County Teacher and School-Related Employee of the Year, this time for District 1. Ronald Shell Jr., a math interventionist at Oscar J. Pope Elementary in Southeast Lakeland ...

An ESE inclusion teacher uses her own experience with dyslexia to help students, and a paraeducator has worked at the same ...

Since the start of the 2024-2025 school year in Polk County, 24 students have been arrested for written or online threats, ...

Gardner, a paraeducator, is the finalist for School ... the district said. "Outside of work, she is an active volunteer with multiple community organizations." Gardner, a 2022 graduate of Polk ...

BARTOW — Last week, Polk County Public Schools sent more than 40 employees from its district office to Haines ... involved but for our entire school community.” Students have made threats ...