Palm Beach County School Board

Dozens of community members poured into the Palm Beach County School Board meeting Wednesday in opposition to having the Sheriff's Office take over school policing duties.  The School Board agreed to ask the Sheriff's Officer to make a presentation...

The high-caliber schools attracted Kristin Matheny and her family to Weston. Now she may not send her kids to public school when they reach school age. Similar worries are being voiced in Palm Beach County. "A lot of people are very concerned," said...

Palm Beach County schools have agreed to be more welcoming to immigrant children whose families may not have all the paperwork needed to enroll in school. The district also will take steps to try to ensure students with limited English skills aren't...

Plans are still on track for Palm Beach County schools to gets its first corruption watchdog. Or are they? Pressed for time Wednesday, the School Board called for a one-week postponement of its planned selection of finalists for the new position of...

The Palm Beach County School Board has joined a new, national push to scale back standardized testing. The board voted today today to join the national group, which is urging a “time out from testing” and for states and the federal...

Plans to use a scorecard to rate the 24 applicants for Palm Beach County schools superintendent didn’t go too smoothly, says School Board Vice Chairwoman Debra Robinson. She had hoped a community group would have been able to rank the strongest...

Learning to share was lesson number one Wednesday as the Palm Beach County Commission and School Board discussed ways to combine efforts to cut costs for taxpayers. Sharing parking lots, teaming up on technology services and opening schools to more......

State Sen. Dave Aronberg, D-Greenacres, and political consultant Eric Johnson, are joining the board of the state gay rights group Florida Together. Aronberg, who is straight, said his presence will bring an element of diversity to the organization???s...

Frank Barbieri, is seeking a second term on the Palm Beach County School Board. See my colleague Marc Freeman's education blog posting for details.......

Boca Raton Mayor Susan Whelchel has filed officially for her last term as mayor, according to a press release. Whelchel???s announcement touted her work on job retention, trimming the city???s budget and economic development. Read the full release after...

A random drug testing program in Palm Beach County schools is showing positive results in battling substance abuse, but the effort is still small in scale, officials say. Just three high schools — Suncoast, Glades Central and Palm Beach Gardens &#...