February 2020

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To encourage more families to take advantage of the healthy choices available for school breakfast, the School District of Palm Beach County will celebrate National School Breakfast Week during March 2-6, 2020.

An important new website called Caring First is now available for students, parents, teachers, and staff.

Although there are currently no documented cases of Coronavirus in Palm Beach County, the School District is being proactive in following CDC recommendations and guidelines in preparation for potential cases of the virus.

Zscore Noel, a fourth-grade student at Glade View Elementary School, made tremendous gains in math, going from an initial level of 4.0 to 4.87.

This Wellington Landings Middle School U.S. History and social studies teacher put his wealth of knowledge up against other great minds on Jeopardy.

Applications are now being accepted for the Florida Future Educators of America (FFEA) scholarship. The program was implemented to help the School District of Palm Beach County "Grow its Own Teachers."

Fifteen student winners and finalists were chosen in this year’s School Bus Alcohol Prevention Media Contest, with their entries inspired by the theme “In it to Win it! Alcohol Free".

This beautiful new Holocaust Daffodil Remembrance Garden at Christa McAuliffe Middle School is part of a worldwide initiative to plant gardens in honor of the victims of the Holocaust A Holocaust survivor attended a special dedication ceremony. We will never forget.

Patrick Chrysostome began working for the School District of Palm Beach County in 2001 as a Community Language Facilitator (CLF) in order to use his trilingual skills as an asset for the Haitian Creole population.

The School District of Palm Beach County’s Employee One Giving Campaign (EOGC) is now underway and runs through March 20.

Are you or a friend looking for a job with the Palm Beach County School District? The School Food Service Department is seeking candidates for Food Service Assistants.

Latinos In Action students from John I. Leonard High School and the PR/Hispanic Chamber of Commerce are joining forces to collect items for people in Puerto Rico affected by the earthquake that occurred there in early January.

More than 13,000 high school juniors and hundreds of high school seniors in Palm Beach County schools will be taking the SAT, free of charge, at their schools on Wednesday, March 4.

Charlie Porter is an internationally acclaimed trumpeter, composer, and graduate of the Palm Beach County School District. In January, he won a Grammy for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album for his collaboration on Songplay, opera star Joyce DoDonato’s crossover album.

School District of Palm Beach County Police Department Chief Frank Kitzerow is one of 15 finalists for Campus Safety Magazine’s Campus Safety Director of the Year. He is among an elite group of contenders from all over the country.

‘Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future’ was the theme the Office of Diversity in Business Practices chose to celebrate Black History Month in an event organized in collaboration with the Black Chamber of Commerce of Palm Beach County.

Two years after moving to Florida from Brazil for a better education, Ayumi Nunes ranks “Top in World” on the Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) Travel and Tourism exam, an accomplishment for her and Boca Raton Community High School.

Anais Almonte is a senior at John I. Leonard High School who learned CPR in her school’s Medical Sciences program. She had no idea that training would come in handy when she helped save a baby’s life.