The backdrop here is that testing is changing as the state adopts the so-called Florida Standards. The Florida Standards closely mirror Common Core practices, albeit slightly tweaked and with a ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a bill to eliminate year-end standardized testing in high schools, saying “you can’t be wedded to the old way of doing things.” ...

Students began standardized testing almost as soon as they returned to school in August. To get a midyear check on student progress, a second round of the new Florida Assessment of Student ...

Alachua County Public Schools began taking standardized tests with the new Florida Assessment of Student Thinking less than a month into the school year. Students in voluntary prekindergarten ...

After hearing parents and teachers argue that Florida students spend too much time preparing for and taking tests, Gov. Rick Scott vowed to gather more information. During his 2014 reelection ...

There are growing concerns about the approaching statewide standardized tests in Florida.

Florida announced Monday that its standardized testing season, which begins in April, will be extended. The hope is that spreading out testing will allow "every student" to safely take their ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis recently announced plans to end the Florida Standards Assessments, or FSA, Florida’s annual standardized tests of student performance. In its place, schools would implement the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida will extend the standardized testing period in the spring to allow for in-person testing for students who have not yet returned to campus due to COVID-19 concerns, the ...

Saying the state’s system of standardized testing in public schools is “quite frankly, outdated,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced that lawmakers will consider a proposal during the ...

Florida's school testing season looks likely to start in April, as planned, with more than a million students scheduled to take the standardized exams. But this fall some parents, who opted to ...

The Florida Department of Education has decided that the annual standardized tests in math, science and English will go ahead this spring, and be held in-person only, leaving some parents ...