BRADENTON -- Manatee County students who failed the new state-mandated end-of-course exams in Algebra 1 -- about 1,300 of them last school year -- have the first opportunity next week to re-take the ...

School is out, but across Florida more than 200,000 students anxiously await the result of the linchpin in their high school graduation portfolio: a passing score on the Algebra 1 end-of-course exam.

A little more than half of Montgomery County's 25 high schools had failure rates of more than 70 percent for the final exam in Algebra 1 in June, even after the district added 15 percentage points to ...

Montgomery County's failure rate for the June final exam in Algebra 1 was so steep — 82 percent for high school students — that district officials say they decided to add 15 percentage points to all ...

Florida students made strong gains on the state’s key algebra 1 exam this year, with 62 percent passing — up from 55 percent last year, according to results released today. But the state’s 10th ...