The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, is being replaced by a test aligned to the Common Core State Standards. StateImpact Florida's Sammy Mack remembers FCAT and its controversial run. A ...
Opt out: That’s what a group of Orlando parents decided to do rather than have their kids take the new Florida Standards Assessment tests that debuted in schools this year. Parents say the state’s new ...
If you have a kid in a Florida public school, you know it’s FCAT season, that sometimes-pressurized time when schools administer the state’s high-stakes standardized tests. Even if your child didn’t ...
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test is dying, say Florida education officials. By this time next year, the FCAT will be replaced with a new, Common Core-aligned assessment. FCAT was born in 1995 ...
Pupils in Miss Simpkins’ fifth grade class were engaged in a rather unusual lesson plan: How to cheat on the FCAT test. At least that’s what State Board of Education officials said when they recently ...