Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test

First Round Of FCATs Kicks Off Tuesday

Some South Florida students will need to put on their thinking caps Tuesday – or should that be their writing caps?

CBS4–2013/02/26

Broward School Board Discusses De-Emphasizing FCATs

Students get worked up over them, parents dread them and teachers now have part of their merit pay based on their results according to a new law. They’re the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Tests.

CBS4–2012/05/30

Education Board Takes Action On Low FCAT Scores

Since its inception, Florida schools and their students have had a lot riding on the scores of the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test (FCAT).

CBS4–2012/05/15

FCATs Underway Across South Florida

They’ve studied, they’ve reviewed and they’ve taken practice tests. Nearly two million Florida public school students will begin to take the state administered Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

CBS4–2012/04/16

First Round Of FCATs Kicks Off Tuesday

Some South Florida students will need to put on their thinking caps – or should that be their writing caps? The first round of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests (FCATs) kicks off Tuesday with the writing portion of the test for 4th, 8th and 10th graders.

CBS4–2012/02/28

Apples For The Teachers, Red Letter Day For Students

South Florida kids put their minds to it and produced. FCAT scores for elementary and middle schools are out, and they are up, outpacing the rest of the state.

CBS4–2011/06/30

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