The study showed that 55 percent of Florida’s college freshmen required some sort of remedial class work. ... Dump FCAT in high school, rely on… Share this: Click to share on Facebook ...

TOM BEARDEN: Instead of going to college this summer, 18-year-old Juan Guerrero may have to keep working at a fast-food restaurant in Miami Beach.

"But in FCAT they score it and then they give it to you. They don't say what you need to work on, ... It will affect his or her further years in school and college," said Sojeet Sharma, 11.

With her parents cheering from the audience, Ashley Dean joined 400 classmates in May at her high school graduation. She had passed all the required courses, earning a 2.5 grade point average and ...

But they won’t earn diplomas this spring because they couldn’t pass FCAT, the state’s exit exam.For each of those students, the failure is frustrating and discouraging.

This would be a worse idea than putting Michael Jackson in charge of the Catholic Church. This would be a bigger waste of time than Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer going out on tour together. This would … ...

The Thursday editorial on education states that the High School Reform Task Force intends to implement a program that will model high schools after colleges. This is, in theory, a wonderful idea, b… ...

A self-professed class clown, Middleton, 20, said he treated the FCAT as a joke, ... get my GED and not go to college because I was scared that if I couldn't pass I wouldn't do well in school." ...

TALLAHASSEE -- Hundreds, if not thousands, of students will be going to college without having to pass Florida's high-stakes FCAT exam. This was the first year that high school seniors were suppose… ...

Of Alachua County's 1,700 seniors, 109, or 6.4 percent, have yet to earn a passing score on reading and 92 seniors, or 5.4 percent, on math. Statewide, more than 14,000 seniors, or nearly 10 ...

Robert Krampf’s first e-mail to Florida’s Department of Education was cordial, even as he raised troubling allegations that poorly written FCAT Science exam questions could be grading students ...

Last June, after 12,000 high school seniors failed the FCAT, Gov. Jeb Bush signed into a law a measure that allows those students to earn a diploma by achieving prescribed scores on college ...