Lee Schools

Retired educator Denise Carlin vs attorney Victor Arias

A message that was distributed via social media and claiming Lee County schools were closed due to inclement weather was a fake notice and district officials said the majority of students were in class Tuesday morning.

Principals and department hiring managers will be at the Lee County Public Education Center interviewing and hiring teachers, school psychologists, speech-language pathologists, school social workers, and school counselors for the 2023-2024 school year.

Southwest Florida voters will decide on a number of school board seats as well as choose if the next Lee County school superintendent will be appointed or elected.

Three SWFL districts getting a portion of $2.7 million earmarked for career and technical education programs.

Students returning to school have lost out on weeks of instruction, putting them behind on the year’s planned curriculum. But more serious, say some experts, are long-term effects on a student’s physical and emotional health.

Thirteen Lee County schools reopened today. Tice Elementary was one of them.

The school district superintendent in Lee County has been an appointed position since 1974. In the November general election, voters will get to decide whether to make it an elected position.

All of them have cleared the nine criteria the District established to ensure the campuses were safe for students and staff to return.

The Lee County School District is opening temporary satellite Student Enrollment offices to help families displaced by Hurricane Ian.