For the first time in 18 years, third grade students at District-operated schools outpaced the state average in the English Language Arts Florida Standards Assessments (FSA). The District also moved up from third to tie for second place among the seven large urban school districts in Florida.

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Lynn University has named Jada Diogostine as the commencement speaker for the Class of 2021, which will occur May 15.

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For the sixth consecutive year, the School District of Palm Beach County has been honored with the prestigious Best Communities for Music Education designation from the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation. Palm Beach County is one of only six school districts in Florida to receive the distinction for 2022, following the completion of an extensive NAMM survey/application. 

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American Sugar Refining, a member of West Palm Beach-based ASR Group, and its parent companies – Florida Crystals Corp. and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida – celebrated the maiden voyage of the newly constructed barge Knot Refined, which departed from the Port of Palm Beach to deliver 18,000 tons of Palm Beach County-grown and -milled raw sugar to ASR Group’s Domino Sugar refinery in New York.

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