The 1st District Court of Appeal is considering a case that will determine several school boards’ obligations to students who wish to opt out of standardized tests. According to a Feb. 9 report by the News Service of Florida on TheLedger.com, parents of students who had been denied promotion to the fourth grade for their failure to complete standardized tests in third grade brought the case against seven school boards, centering around the Hernando County School Board, and Pam Stewart, the commissioner of the Florida Department of Education.
