The Florida Standards Assessment is only two years old, but some state lawmakers are already looking for another option to test Florida’s students on what they’ve learned during the school year.
Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, is leading the charge in the Florida Legislature to allow school districts to choose other types of standardized tests — like the SAT and the ACT for different grades.
The bill, SB 1360, has several provisions which would give students the ability to take different tests like the ACT Aspire instead of the FSA. The ACT Aspire is a newly redesigned version of the ACT’s Plan test, which was the company’s version of the PSAT, the “practice test” for the SAT college-entrance exam.
