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LAKELAND Marcus Roberts, chief operating officer of Second Sight Publishing, saw that local school children needed to read books that held their interest and so BAM! he donated 1,000 comic books to Polk County Public Schools.
“We at Second Sight Publishing strive to provide quality, entertaining, reading to kids of all ages and welcome the opportunity to provide an alternative reading source to help strengthen the reading skills of students,” said Roberts, who lives in Lakeland.
Jason Geary, a spokesman for PCPS, said the district is reviewing them to determine appropriate age and grade level comprehension. Once they have that figured out POW! they will distribute them to the schools.
BARTOW Officials with the Polk Education Association and Polk County Public Schools remain at impasse on what to pay teachers, paraeducators and clerical staff all as those employees continue to work through a pandemic that has landed at least two Lakeland teachers in the intensive care unit with COVID-19.
On Monday and Tuesday, the union and district officials are scheduled to sit down with a special magistrate and present their cases for formal review.
At issue are:
• Increasing paraeducator, secretarial and clerical pay to $10 an hour, which PEA officials said would cost the district an additional $2.2 million. It would also put the district in compliance ahead of schedule with the recently passed Amendment 2, which requires minimum wage be increased to $15 an hour incrementally over the next five years.