Torrie Kearney is stressed out. No, really. The 8th grader at Sanderlin IB World School in south St. Petersburg is "getting kind of nervous" about her upcoming Florida Standards Assessments, an ...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now proposing the end of Florida Statewide Assessments. This past week, he announced lawmakers will work on a bill to switch from standardized testing to progress ...
If you're the parent of a middle- or high-schooler, you might be wondering what the heck happened to their report cards. Blame the FSA. That is, the Florida Standards Assessments "End of Course" tests ...
Leon and Wakulla counties were among the top school districts on state exams, according to the latest wave of testing information released by the Department of Education earlier this week. The data ...
Ever since Gov. Jeb Bush instituted the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, in the 1990s, I cheered every time the state of Florida changed its testing program. This time has gotta be ...
Thousands of Central Florida students are diving into Florida Standards Assessments testing for the very last time, but its not the end of standardized testing. Florida rolled out FSA testing in 2016.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Standards Assessment tests continued Tuesday, despite Monday's debacle with student log-in problems. Many districts had to reschedule the tests. FSA replaced the FCAT this year ...
OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — The Florida Legislature will take up two bipartisan bills that would help more than 265,000 students improve their odds of passing the Florida Statewide Assessment (FSA) tests.
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This post has been updated. Florida should scrap its new standardized test and use national exams in its place next year, a “simple solution” to the testing controversies and problems that plagued ...