Auditors said the university kept poor records on spending of $2 million in state funds to work with a contractor on design of a statewide anti-hazing course for college freshmen that was ultimately taken by only 184 students, Fox 13 News reports.
Florida Southern College’s iconic Annie Pfeiffer Chapel is a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it was newly named to Southern Living’s list of “The South’s Most Beautiful Chapels.” (The designation is so new that it doesn’t appear to be on the magazine’s website yet.) On the other hand, the 1941 structure presents expensive maintenance challenges and its interior is currently closed to the public because of the effects of recent heavy rains | Photo gallery
Graduation dates and times for Lakeland-area public high schools (Many of the ceremonies at the RP Funding Center will be live streamed on the Polk Public Schools YouTube channel:
Learn more about the new logo and the student contest from which it emerged.
The Polk School Board approved the plan hammered out by School Superintendent Jacqueline Byrd and Sheriff Grady Judd to hire 90 security guards trained by law enforcement agencies to intervene in active shooter situations.
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Sheriff Grady Judd and Schools Superintendent Jacqueline Byrd had different ideas about how to make public school campuses safer, but agreed to a solution that involves hiring armed security guards. School Board members are scheduled to vote on it later today. | Agenda
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