Florida was a pioneer in using state test results to give out grades to public schools. The test scores are also used to hold back third graders and evaluate how well teachers are doing their job. But opposition to these tests has spiked as lawmakers tacked on more uses for the scores.
Across the state, school boards, parents and other critics have offered both symbolic and substantive protests against the sheer number of tests - and how the results are used. Now lawmakers seem ready to make big changes when the legislative session begins in March.
