NAPLES, Fla. – Collier County Public Schools announced Monday morning that all Florida Standards Assessment testing has been canceled because of a state computer issue preventing students from logging on.
Lee County encountered the same issues, according to Jennifer DeShazo of the district’s communications office, and Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart in a conference call with the state’s superintendents blamed problems on the outside company the state hired to put together the new standardized test.
AIR was awarded the contract to create the new Florida Standards that this year replace the FCAT but are slightly different from what is known as Common Core throughout the country. About four dozen changed were made to the Common Core curriculum to create the Florida Standards, but most notably it retains cursive and calculus instruction.
