With graduation looming, officials are hoping efforts to boost high school graduation rates will pay off in the numbers. ...more

May 22, 2008

SEBRING — More Highlands County third-graders scored at or above grade level in math and reading compared to the state average, according to Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test results released Wednesday. However, about 146 third-graders, or 15 percent of the students, will have to pass another test after a summer reading camp to be promoted to fourth grade. They scored in Level 1 or the lowest level of the assessment scale. Eighty-percent of the county's third-graders scored in Level 3 or above in math. Statewide, and last year in Highlands County, 76 percent had achieved that level. In FCAT reading, that number was 74 percent compared to last year's 70 percent and this year's state percentage of 72 percent. ...more

May 21, 2008

Results reflect significant increases for third-graders. ...more

May 21, 2008

The state is reporting that a greater percentage of Florida third-graders are reading and performing mathematics at or above grade level compared with last year, according to the 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. ...more

May 21, 2008

Overall, Hernando County's fourth-, eighth- and tenth-graders did about as well as the state average on the writing portion of this year's annual Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. ...more

May 9, 2008

FIRST BATCH OF SCORES RELEASED TO SCHOOLS THURSDAY FCAT SCORES ...more

May 8, 2008

When things go well, they say, you're supposed to act like you've been there before. That's all well and good for the Red Sox and Yankees, who have, in fact, been there before. ...more

May 2, 2008

"Just Do It," one of Nike's ad slogans, might also be something the government should use to encourage consumers to spend their expected tax rebates. ...more

February 6, 2008

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won Florida's Democratic primary Tuesday, a contest diminished by a clash between the state and national parties that left no delegates at stake and caused the candidates to mostly stay away. ...more

January 30, 2008

The $150 billion stimulus package Congress and the Bush administration unveiled Thursday meets the tests most economists prescribed for the ailing economy: It is targeted, temporary and (relatively) timely. ...more

January 25, 2008