Florida started its annual rollout of public school test scores and school grades today by releasing the writing scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. The test is taken in grades four, eight and 10. Here's one take on the scores statewide from the people who administer it, the Florida Department of Education: "… a greater percentage of Florida students are writing at or above grade level." ...more

May 8, 2008

SEBRING — For about one-fifth of the students in Highlands County, next week is the start of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. The FCAT Writing Plus test will be administered to fourth-, eighth- and 10th- graders starting Tuesday. Testing will continue on Wednesday followed by two make-up testing days – Thursday and Friday (Feb. 15). Hill-Gustat Middle School eighth-grader Laura Tenneson is calm and confident about the FCAT. ...more

February 8, 2008

Tim Harris has been the football coach at Miami Washington High for five seasons. The last four, his team has been eliminated in the state semifinals by a Hillsborough County team. ...more

December 5, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - The Gulf wrestling team was introduced to a whole new wrestling culture last week. ...more

November 29, 2007

The lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy in Mississippi in August 1955, riled black America as nothing had done before. But what happened to him in Mississippi had already happened to a black child in Florida a decade earlier, and there was no national outcry for justice. ...more

November 18, 2007