To help reduce the dropout rate for at-risk students in Palm Beach County, the school board today voted to accept a grant from the federal Department of Education to pay for a five-year program the district believes will help more kids earn their high school diplomas. The grant is up to $9.7 million. Starting this [...]

For the past decade, the District 7 seat on the Palm Beach County School Board has been held by Debra Robinson. But Thomas Hawkins, a teacher at S.D. Spady Elementary in Delray Beach, and William Abrams, an unemployed social studies teacher from Lake Worth, hope to change that. The nonpartisan contest is open to all [...]