DOE Says Testing Problems Caused By Vendor: Leon Schools Suspends Online Testing…Again

Florida Department of Education Commissioner Pam Stewart says school districts can resume scheduled tests. The department is blaming testing administrator the American Institutes for Research, for outages that stopped testing Monday. In a statement, Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart said AIR made a technical change to its system that resulted in login problems when students…

Details

Standardized testing resumes in Manatee schools after morning outage

MANATEE — After a technical glitch caused statewide outages early Monday, standardized testing started hours later in Manatee County schools. In a conference call with the state Department of Education and Commissioner Pam Stewart, every district across the state was told it had regained access to testing, “We have confirmed that the login issue has…

Details

Collier, Lee schools delay FSA testing after statewide computer glitch halts testing

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…

Details

Online testing system fails again; angry state official calls glitches ‘unacceptable’

Florida’s computerized testing system ran into a new round of problems Monday, following a trouble-free week that had officials optimistic the system was on solid footing. Districts across the state reported that students were unable to begin taking their Florida Standards Assessments in language arts and math on Monday morning. The Florida Department of Education…

Details

Special session expectations growing

When the first session under Republican rule ended, House Speaker Daniel Webster and Senate President Toni Jennings sat at a tiny table in the Capitol rotunda and Gov. Lawton Chiles poured orange juice for their toast to a new political era. It wasn’t that everybody agreed with the two Orland Republicans presiding over the Legislature.…

Details