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 ...

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 ...

After 16 years as the state-mandated standardized test, the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test ended its final round of statewide testing Friday. Plagued by criticism of its content and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No. 2 pencils and printed test packets are disappearing as standardized testing in Florida finishes segueing into computer-based testing. This year, thousands of Escambia and Santa Rosa County ...

Anthony Kravchenko, who just turned 11, is no stranger to high performance. As a fourth-grader, he got two perfect FCAT scores. This year, as a fifth-grader at Keene’s Crossing Elementary, he got ...

A pair of Senate Democrats Wednesday called on the State Board of Education to investigate delays in the scoring of the states FCAT tests and its contract with test assessment company NCS Pearson. But ...

WEBVTT ALSO EN ROUTE RIGHT NOW. WE'LL UPDATE YOU ON AIR AND ONLINE AT WESH.COM. MORE BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW. FCAT TESTING TODAY IS ON HOLD. THE TESTING SYSTEM IS DOWN DUE TO COMPUTER PROBLEMS. IT'S ...