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• Position: Schools - Brief Article

Citing the plethora of hurricanes that have battered Florida recently, school superintendents have asked state officials to put off grading schools this year. Superintendents argue that the results of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (the exam on which schools are judged) would not be comparable to last year's scores. That's because almost all of the state's children have missed days of school and experienced disrupted lives due to the storms. The Department of Education, however, isn't buying their arguments. "We...