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He was an assistant principal at Eagles' Landing Middle School, and principal at Boca Raton Middle School and Olympic Heights Community High School. [8] He held several district leadership roles beginning in 2009, eventually becoming the Regional Superintendent of the South Region of the School District of Palm Beach County in 2019. In his role ...
Florida's 21st congressional district is a U.S. congressional district on the Treasure Coast.In the 2020 redistricting cycle, the district was drawn as a successor to the previous 18th district and contains all of St. Lucie County and Martin County as well as the northeastern part of Palm Beach County, and includes Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce, Stuart, Jupiter, and Palm Beach Gardens, as well ...
Jupiter is the northernmost town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.According to the 2020 US Census, the town had a population of 61,047.It is 84 miles north of Miami and 15 miles north of West Palm Beach.
Isiah C. Smith (1922–2012) was a judge and civil rights attorney. He was Palm Beach County, Florida's third black lawyer. He and William Holland, Palm Beach County's first black attorney, fought successfully to integrate the county's schools, golf courses, department stores, airport taxi service, and the Florida Turnpike's restaurants and bathrooms through lawsuits and negotiations in the ...
West Palm Beach station is a train station in West Palm Beach, Florida. It is served by Amtrak passenger rail and Tri-Rail commuter rail service. It is located at 203–209 South Tamarind Avenue, south of First Street/Banyan Boulevard.
West Boca Raton is roughly considered to be the area west of the Florida's Turnpike between Delray Beach and the Broward County line. Some would also include the area between the Turnpike and Jog/Powerline Road or Military Trail, including Boca West, Boca Del Mar, and Boca Pointe, though large parts of that section have been annexed into municipal Boca Raton or are destined as "future ...
In 2003, the Palm Beach County School Board named a planned new high school, "West Boca Raton Community High School." [5] The school building was constructed by James Pirtle Construction Inc. of Davie [6] at a cost of $46 million. [7] Construction progress was featured on the district's construction project Web site. [8]
After black attorney Bill Holland, Sr. unsuccessfully attempted to enroll his son at the exclusively-white Northboro Elementary School in West Palm Beach, he and fellow attorney I.C. Smith filed a class-action suit. Other than token integration in the 1960s, schools would not be officially desegregated until 1973. [96]