Florida’s school testing debate is alive again with calls to adopt a national exam

The push to overhaul Florida’s testing system is regaining momentum with a proposal to replace the new Florida Standards Assessments with tried and true national exams. Seminole County school district leaders, who launched the effort this summer, suggest the national tests would be less time-consuming and easier to implement. The FSAs can take up to…

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Schools in ‘holding pattern’ while they await testing study

TALLAHASSEE—Students in some Florida districts are already back in school, but their administrators and teachers still don’t have the results from last school year’s state exams. After technical problems disrupted this spring’s computer-based state exams, the first administration of tests based on Florida’s version of the Common Core standards, Gov. Rick Scott and the state…

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Florida testing validity study should be done on time, contractor says

Alpine Testing Solutions, the firm conducting Florida’s testing validity study, reports that its work should be completed by the Sept. 1 deadline that lawmakers set. The group has received much of the documentation it requested, and conducted several interviews in gathering information to help reach findings. One area where Alpine has requested more specifics is…

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