{"id":6729,"date":"2012-04-16T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=6729"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:59:11","slug":"it-is-fcat-testing-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/04\/it-is-fcat-testing-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is FCAT Testing Time Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FCAT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6730\" title=\"FCAT\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FCAT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s FCAT week for students across Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Students in elementary, middle and high school are required to take the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests each spring. This year students will take the FCAT 2.0, which carries a tougher standard than the original FCAT.<\/p>\n<p>The tests are used to help determine a child&#8217;s progress in school.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Florida Department of Education reports a failing grade can affect students in a number of ways. Third-grade students who fail can be retained. Failing grades can also force students to take remedial math or reading classes and eventually keep students from graduating high school.<\/p>\n<p>A 10th grade student must pass the reading portion of the FCAT to graduate. But they get two chances to pass in 11th grade and two more opportunities senior year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s FCAT week for students across Florida. Students in elementary, middle and high school are required to take the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests each spring. This year students will take&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}