Science scores climbed at most schools this year, which could be good news when it comes to school grades. ...more

June 14, 2008

Science scores climbed at most schools this year, which could be good news when it comes to school grades. ...more

June 14, 2008

TAMPA Science scores climbed at most schools this year, which could be good news when it comes to school grades. ...more

June 11, 2008

Science scores climbed at most schools this year, which could be good news when it comes to school grades. ...more

June 11, 2008

Helping make Florida affordable again and restoring the state's economy were the top priorities this year for the House of Representatives. The budget problems we're experiencing in Tallahassee are a symptom of a slowing economy nationwide, not just in Florida. ...more

May 19, 2008

Hillsborough school officials are celebrating the best average writing score for eighth-graders in the state on the essay portion of this year's Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. ...more

May 9, 2008

TAMPA PALMS - Most area schools had a majority of their students pass this year's FCAT writing test, with eighth-graders bringing in some of the highest scores. The state Department of Education recently released 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test writing scores. Hillsborough County eighth-graders averaged the highest score in the state. The district earned a 4.6 combined score out of a possible 6. The state average was 4.2. In the Northeast area, the USF Charter School was the only school at which more than half of its students didn't earn a passing score on the test. But the school did see improvement this year, going from 41 percent of students passing in 2007 to 45 percent of students passing in 2008. ...more

May 8, 2008

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 — The Thomas B. Fordham Institute's study cited the following error in the current standards: a second-grader, for example, "... knows that a thermometer measures the amount of heat absorbed by an object." This is careless and false, the study stated: a thermometer measures temperature, or better, changes in temperature, not the amount of heat absorbed. ...more

December 16, 2007

Dust off your old school photos because the Plant City Photo Archives wants to put them on display for a gala event in March. ...more

December 12, 2007