But Rick Roach, the Orange County School Board member opposed to high-stakes testing and long-critical of FCAT, told News 13, he thought FSA would be worse than its predecessor. Roach called the ...

Don’t sweat the FCAT. That was the message in Monday’s “My Word” about the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Don’t sweat the FCAT? Tell that to my four children who have trudged off to school ...

Robert Krampf’s first e-mail to Florida’s Department of Education was cordial, even as he raised troubling allegations that poorly written FCAT Science exam questions could be grading students as ...

Plummeting FCAT writing scores have led to a renewed round of criticisms against Florida's ongoing effort to ramp up its education accountability and testing program. Preliminary results released ...

Students will begin taking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test on Tuesday. The Times-Union is running a series of sample math, reading and science questions for third through 11th grade.

[Columnist Michael] Mayo, just like a spoiled child who did not get his way, cried and cried. “Thwarted in my efforts to get an actual past test….” How can he make a valid comment about the Florida ...