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FCAT Scores Promised Monday

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After a prolonged period of time, NCS Pearson, the company hired to administer Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), says FCAT scores will be ready Monday. The knowledge that scores are on the way should allow school adminstrators, teachers, students and parents the opportunity to breath a delayed sigh of relief-- that is if Florida's students performed well. If not, scores will be used to assess remedial needs and determine whether students are grade-promoted. Specific school performance will be indirectly evaluated as well.

Regardless of what the scores show, one thing is certain: the delay of information has been an extremely costly one for a public school system already operating under major budgeting constraints. Read more.

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