Many Florida students continue to struggle on high-stakes tests in reading and math. The Florida Department of Education reported Friday that nearly half of the ninth and 10th-graders who took the ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — There is a growing movement of parents who are refusing to send their children to school to take the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests even though the standardized tests are ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A statewide hotline set up to answer parents’ questions and complaints about this year's dismal FCAT scores had only received 147 calls as of mid-afternoon Monday, but WFTV has ...

The Florida Department of Education announced Tuesday that the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test will be replaced.The FCAT will be retired in three years and replaced with tougher exams called the ...

The controversial high-stakes test that debuted last spring accurately measures a student’s mastery of tough new educational standards, a report released Tuesday found, paving the way for its use in ...

Students who were supposed to take the FCAT test on Tuesday were unable to do so because the system went down.Officials with Orange County Public Schools, where Orlando is, said several other ...

Florida students will take a new standardized state test this spring that’ll be more rigorous, slightly longer and mostly online. These high-stakes exams, tied to tougher Common Core education ...

UPDATE: Official results have been posted on the state website. FCAT third-grade results are beginning to trickle in ahead of the state's official release later today. These scores are important, ...

The FCAT you've come to know — and often complain about — is changing this school year as the state pushes higher academic standards and new testing. For the first time, there will be no ninth-grade ...