WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Students made substantial growth throughout the school year, including 42% in some subjects, in the Florida Department of Education's first Florida Assessment of Student ...

After facing criticism about his education policies during his first stint in office, Gov. Rick Scott pledged to make schooling a priority for a second term. PolitiFact Florida is still grading ...

STUART, Fla. (CBS12) — While students across the state are enjoying summer break, a new report released by the Florida Department of Education shows improvement in all key academic subjects this ...

Florida kids are finally taking the third and last of the FAST tests for the 2023-2024 school year. FAST stands for Florida Assessment of Student Thinking. Unlike the FSA, the FAST test is given three ...

The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking helps educators gauge student learning in VPK through high school on a variety of different subjects. This school year, 53% of students in grades 3 to 10 ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida education leaders are celebrating what they call "significant student growth and improvements" in the second year of statewide progress monitoring tests. The Florida ...

Florida students did better on their state benchmark tests this year. But one critic said these tests are not an accurate indicator of how students are — or aren't — improving. Students take Florida ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Northeast Florida had the two best-performing school districts in the state on statewide exams designed to test skills in reading and math, data released on Wednesday showed. The ...

This time last year, the Florida Department of Education was scrambling. Their new standardized test, the Florida Standards Assessment, had crashed. Some students trying to take the assessment were ...

Almost half of the Treasure Coast's students finished the school year unable to read on grade level, according to the state's new assessment results. The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking, or ...

Despite a nationwide decline in students’ results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, there’s good news for Florida’s charter schools. NAEP, also known as the “nation’s report card,” ...

Florida public school students showed significant growth on the state’s mathematics and reading exams this year, improving their passing rates on the high-stakes tests compared to last year, according ...