Education
Florida Department Of Education
One of the four major goals created by the Legislature addresses the need to deliver quality, efficient services within the education system. The State Board of Education adopted the strategic imperative of aligning financial resources with performance expectations as the direction for accomplishing the delivery of quality, efficient services. Within this framework, this website is created to display many indicators of school, district, and state performance. In the event that you do download software from MyFlorida.com, the software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the “Software”) are licensed to you by THE STATE OF FLORIDA and DMS. THE STATE OF FLORIDA and DMS does not transfer the title to the Software to you. You do however, own the medium on which the Software is recorded, but THE STATE OF FLORIDA and DMS retains the full and complete title to the Software, and all intellectual property rights therein. You may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a human-perceivable form.
Home Education
Home Education is a parent-directed educational option that became effective by law in 1985. Parents have the freedom to determine their child’s educational path and the plan for reaching their goals. Students have the opportunity to explore and learn at their own pace, in any location or at any time. More than 55,000 students in approximately 37,000 families are in Home Education Programs in Florida.
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test® (FCAT) is part of Florida’s overall plan to increase student achievement by implementing higher standards. The FCAT, administered to students in Grades 3-11, contains two basic components: criterion-referenced tests (CRT), measuring selected benchmarks in Mathematics, Reading, Science, and Writing from the Sunshine State Standards (SSS); and norm-referenced tests (NRT) in Reading and Mathematics, measuring individual student performance against national norms.The State of Florida requires students to take the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) each year in grades 3-11. Students’ results from the FCAT are compiled to generate a grade for each public school under former Governor Jeb Bush’s A+ Plan. Under this plan, public schools receive a letter grade from A to F, depending on student performance and the degree to which the bottom 25% of the school has improved compared to its past performances. The higher a public school scores, the more funding it receives.
