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FCAT Scores Released, Finally

June 29th, 2010 by flanews

Florida schools finally know their students FCAT scores, after a month of delays. The data processing company grading the tests is blaming computer problems for the late scores. As Whitney Ray tells us, the holdup is costing districts millions of dollars.

Students tested in March will have to wait a little longer to find out their FCAT scores. The test results are normally given to schools in late May, but a computer error by Pearson Education, a state contractor in charge of grading the tests, delayed the release for nearly a month.

The delay cost Principal Rocky Hanna and his staff a lot of time and stress.

“The phone is ringing off the hook, my secretary is ready to walk out the door, parents are beating on the front door wanting results and we still don’t have them,” said Hanna.

Schools won’t get the individual scores for students and parents until July 8th; until then administrators will be working overtime.

Now that schools have the scores, the rush is on to analyze the data in order to build class schedules and hire teachers. But speeding up the process will take money.

The cost of calling administrative and clerical staff back to school to do the work they would have finished in early June will reach into the millions. Department of Education spokesman Tom Butler says Pearson is promising to go the distance to make up for its mistake.

“They’re going to cover the cost as far as what districts have to incurs with these delays. They have been very good about that, and even if it goes beyond the cap that’s in contract for liquidated damages, they’ve said they’d cover it,” said Butler.

The cap in the contract is $25 million, one tenth of the company’s 250 million dollar contract with the state. Once the individual test results are delivered to schools, it will be up to each individual district to decide how to get those results to parents. Some principals will ask parents to pick them up; others will mail them. Mailing the results will cost districts thousands of dollars.

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