Florida Standards Assessment

Principal Keila Victor said building a community — or as she puts it, “a village” — for her 300 students is the most important part of her job.

Before becoming principal, Evan Markowitz was a music teacher at Athenian Academy. He said creating upward mobility for his teachers is important to him.

More Tampa Bay area students in grades 3-8 passed their math exams this year than last, but very little improvement was shown in English and Language Arts exams in grades 3-10.

Some face legal challenges, such as a bill that would prevent abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The release comes as new data reveals just 53 percent of Florida's third-graders passed the state’s reading test.

Governor Ron DeSantis said the change will allow teachers and parents to check in on students before the year is over.

It will be replaced with a “progress monitoring system” that would test students three times a year.

A bill that would carry out Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to end the Florida Standards Assessments received unanimous approval Tuesday in its first Senate committee.

One teacher says she's concerned that testing throughout the year will allow for less flexibility in the teachers’ curriculum.

On this week's "The Florida Roundup," we talk about how Gov. DeSantis wants to end city and county vaccine mandates and the Florida Standards Assessment; a lawsuit seeks more transparency from the state in releasing COVID-19 data; and an all-civilian space crew.

Rather than testing students at the end of the school year, DeSantis wants to move to assessments in the fall, winter and spring as a way to be more "nimble."

Third-graders across the greater Tampa Bay region only saw small changes in how they performed on statewide reading tests.