{"id":887,"date":"2009-02-03T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T22:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=887"},"modified":"2009-03-28T19:41:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T23:41:36","slug":"education-commissioner-supports-replacing-11th-grade-science-fcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=887","title":{"rendered":"Education Commissioner supports replacing 11th-grade science FCAT"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wish the Orlando Sentinel’s education blog would provide a little background concerning where they get their information. The blog reports that Education Commissioner Eric Smith <\/a>likes the idea of scrapping the 11th-grade science FCAT in favor of end-of-course tests. But the blog doesn’t say if this statement happened during a press conference or through a released statement or an interview or what. So, I don’t know what the overall context of this announcement is right now.<\/p>\n

It also should be noted that he mentioned biology as a first science subject to possibly get the end-of-course test. But once again, I don’t know if this was an intentional mention, or just off the cuff. I guess we’ll just have to wait for a fuller version of the story to come out.<\/p>\n

See this previous post <\/a>about legislation concerning the science FCAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wish the Orlando Sentinel’s education blog would provide a little background concerning where they get their information. The blog reports that Education Commissioner Eric Smith likes the idea of scrapping the 11th-grade science FCAT in favor of end-of-course tests. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-ej","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":871,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=871","url_meta":{"origin":887,"position":0},"title":"Lawmaker wants to dump 11th grade science FCAT","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, House Bill 543, \"Educational Assessment\", was filed by Representative Debbie Mayfield (R). 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