WPTV has partnered with the Scripps Howard Fund and Scholastic to allow each student at Weatherbee Elementary School to take home three free books through the "If You Give a Child a Book" campaign.
Children can't learn if they are not in school, and right now, the superintendent of St. Lucie Public Schools calls attendance the biggest crisis facing educators.
Through your donations to the "If You Give a Child a Book" campaign from WPTV and the Scripps Howard Fund, students at Weatherbee Elementary School get to build their home libraries full of books.
A charter school at Tradition in Port St. Lucie is ending its formal relationship with Florida Atlantic University and will operate as a regular campus at St. Lucie Public Schools.
Port St. Lucie High School is on a precautionary lockdown Friday after the school's principal said a rumor was circulating on social media about a threat to the school.