{"id":23529,"date":"2015-04-23T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=23529"},"modified":"2015-04-23T14:24:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:24:23","slug":"miami-dade-eliminates-most-local-final-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2015\/04\/23\/miami-dade-eliminates-most-local-final-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade Eliminates Most Local Final Exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23238\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the district is eliminating more than 300 end-of-course exams this year, thanks to a new state law.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/02\/2-4-CarvalhoVax.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23238\" alt=\"Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the district is eliminating more than 300 end-of-course exams this year, thanks to a new state law.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/02\/2-4-CarvalhoVax-300x218.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/02\/2-4-CarvalhoVax-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/02\/2-4-CarvalhoVax-620x452.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">John O&#39;Connor \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the district is eliminating more than 300 end-of-course exams this year, thanks to a new state law.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Miami-Dade School District is taking advantage of a new state law and eliminating more than 300 final tests &#8212; also known as end-of-course exams.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/Sections\/Bills\/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=54544\">law rescinds a requirement that districts give students a final exam<\/a> in all subjects that don&#8217;t already have a required state exam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s announcement should come as welcomed news to everyone who recognizes that too much testing deprives our students of valuable instruction time,&#8221; district superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho said in a statement. &#8220;In making these decisions, we&#8217;ve taken a logical and responsible approach to address the concerns of students, teachers and parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade will give no end-of-course exams to elementary school students this year.<\/p>\n<p>The district will field test 10 middle and high school end-of-course exams, but the results will not have any consequences. Those 10 subjects include five science courses, three history courses and two Spanish courses.<\/p>\n<p>The district will field test new exams each year.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: As the <em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/blogs\/gradebook\/florida-school-districts-begin-slashing-local-end-of-course-exams\/2226737\">Gradebook blog notes<\/a>, Charlotte and Walton County school districts have also suspended required use of local end-of-course exams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami-Dade School District is taking advantage of a new state law and eliminating more than 300 final tests &#8212; also known as end-of-course exams. The law rescinds a requirement that districts give students a final exam in all subjects that don&#8217;t already have a required state exam. &#8220;Today&#8217;s announcement should come as welcomed news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":23238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[980,721,956,1006],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23531,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23529\/revisions\/23531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}