Polk County Public Schools
The Polk Public Schools are having a training session for private schools on how to administer the Florida Kindergarten Readiness Screener (FLKRS) tests.
Florida law requires private schools with kindergarten students who attended the state’s voluntary pre-kindergarten (VPK) to administer the tests.
Even if the private school does not have a VPK program they are required to administer the FLKRS test to their kindergarten students who previously were in a VPK program. The private schools are also required to administer the FLKRS tests within the first 30 days of the 2008-2009 school year.
The training session is Thursday, July 31 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Jim Miles Professional Development Center, 5204 U.S. Highway 98, Lakeland.
Contact Donna Buckner, Polk Public Schools senior coordinator of assessment, accountability and evaluation, at (863) 534-0688 for further information on the training session or the FLKRS requirement for private schools.
The following are school board meeting updates for the month of July:
A school board meeting will be held on Thursday, July 17, 2008. The topic of this meeting will be the tentative budget for the 2008-2009 school year. This meeting will be held at 8:30 a.m. in the auditorium of the school district administrative office, 1915 South Floral Avenue, Bartow. Contact Mark Grey, Polk Public Schools assistant superintendent of business services, at (863) 534-0542 for further information on the 2008-2009 school district budget.
Two public hearings will be held during the Tuesday, July 22, 2008 school board meeting. A public hearing on the tentative 2008-2009 school district budget and millage rates will begin no earlier than 5:30 p.m. Contact Mark Grey at (863) 534-0542 for further information on the 2008-2009 school district budget and millage rates.
A public hearing on proposed changes to the 2008-2009 Codes of Student Conduct will begin during the July 22 school board meeting immediately following the public hearing on the school district budget and millage rates. Contact Linda Troupe, school district director of student services, at (863) 534-0928 for further information on this public hearing.
Both public hearings will be held in the auditorium of the school district administrative office.