Polk County Public Schools Announces 2017 Teacher of the Year, School-Related Employee of the Year Lois Horn-Diaz, a gifted teacher at R. Bruce Wagner Elementary in Lakeland, was announced as the 2017 Polk County Teacher of the Year on Wednesday night. Maureen English, a guidance secretary at Dundee Ridge Middle…
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the Polk County Sheriff's Office arrested 68-year-old Algarene Richards and 15-year-old Jayvyn McFadden, both from Lake Wales, following an altercation on a school bus.On Wednesday, at around 3:30 p.m., a Polk County School bus was transporting students home from Frostproof Middle Senior High School. When…