TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) – Florida ninth-graders who took the state's first ever end-of-course Algebra I exam, on average, got only 41-percent of the answers correct. Education Commissioner Eric Smith ...

Update: The letters notifying parents and students as to whether that student passed the graduation-required Algebra 1 end-of-course exam have begun to arrive in home mailboxes. The letter doesn’t ...

More than 1 in 3 public school students now take Algebra 1 before high school. For those students to succeed, schools must adjust middle school programs to better match student readiness to class ...

A new bill in the Florida Legislature proposes eliminating the Algebra 1 and 10th grade ELA assessments as graduation requirements. Supporters argue that the current system unfairly penalizes students ...