In response to the article, “State picks FCAT replacement for 2015”: For the last four to five years, Florida has told students the FCAT would be replaced. In 2012, my graduating class was ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – South Florida and the rest of the state received the first results Friday of the 2013 FCAT tests. Those tests include FCAT 2.0 writing and third-grade FCAT 2.0 reading and ...

Plagued by criticism of its content and effectiveness over the years, the FCAT started its decline in 2010 when the state Legislature adopted the Common Core State Standards, selected to replace ...

The FCAT board has approved a new underwriting policy, a new scheduling policy, a new copyright policy, new mission and vision statements, and began two fund-raising projects in the last year. I agree ...

This year, the question on many people's minds: Can Duval do it again? At every public school in Florida, FCAT season - a two-week battery of standards-based tests - began Monday. During FCAT ...

Instead, Gov. Jeb Bush and the Legislature wield the FCAT like a sledgehammer, and the damage is everywhere. Children who fail by even one point to pass their FCAT reading test are forced to ...

Re: Hard line on FCAT will ease for some, May 11. I found it interesting that Florida Board of Education member Charles Garcia was quoted in your article as opposing any degree of leniency in ...

The high school senior repeatedly failed Florida's comprehensive assessment test, or FCAT, and won't get his diploma as a result. Even though he's had two jobs throughout high school to help ...

And that’s good news for Florida’s public schools, which are graded from A to F based on FCAT scores. Florida students this year did better than their 2007 counterparts on every test but fifth ...

The new version of its Frame Capture and Analysis Tool (FCAT) is catered specifically to virtual reality, and will go deeper than just spitting out a score, helping to give a better picture of ...