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While nearly 6,000 support staff will receive this one-time bonus, there are two exceptions. Employees hired after January 15, 2021 and teachers who received a raise of more than 2% from the Teacher Salary Increase Allocation are not eligible.  There is also an $800 bonus for teachers who conducted blended learning - teaching both in-person students and online students simultaneously. “They would have to teach both sets of students at the same time,” said PCPS spokesman Jason Geary. “Teachers who taught online in the morning and in-person in the afternoon or vice versa would not qual...

Polk Schools Holding COVID Vaccination Event for Employees This Weekend PUBLISHED 11:31 AM ET Mar. 13, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:31 AM EST Mar. 13, 2021 SHARE POLK COUNTY, Fla. — More than 1,000 Polk County school employees received COVID-19 vaccinations Saturday, and hundreds more will get them Sunday at Lake Region High School. What You Need To Know Some Polk County school employees can get COVID vaccinations this weekend The event is being held at Lake Region High School Only employees 50 and older are eligible for these vaccinations They c...

Polk County teachers have a growing list of opportunities to get vaccinated against COVID-19, including the county's first clinic on Saturday.  Polk County Public Schools announced it is working in conjunction with Florida Department of Health in Polk County to host a vaccination clinic Saturday morning for teachers age 50 and older. The event is by appointment only and will be held at Lake Region High, 1995 Thunder Road in Eagle Lake. It's been 11 days since Gov. Ron DeSantis signed executive orders to extend vaccination priority to law enforcement officers, firefighters and teachers age 5...

LAKELAND — Polk County Public Schools are in negotiations with the Florida Department of Health’s Polk County office to put school district employees who are 65 or older near the front of the vaccination line.  “We did have some brief conversations about rolling out shots,” Deputy Superintendent John Hill said at Tuesday's School Board workshop in response to a question from School Board member Sarah Fortney. Hill said that he and Associate Superintendent for Human Resources Teddra Porteous were planning to reach out to Polk County's Department of Health Director Dr. Joy Jackson ...

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 sa...