EDUCATION

Education

Education

Duval County Public Schools along with four of Florida's largest district school, including in Miami-Dade, Broward, Hillsborough and Leon counties, held simultaneous news conferences to discuss a joint appeal to the Florida Department Education Commissioner Eric Smith, pointing to significant anomalies in the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

In a letter signed by superintendents of five districts, the leaders' request that the release of School Performance Levels with No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) designations will be delayed until an expert study can be carried out and the resolution is presented to all the concerns of data due to ...