Purpose
The purpose of this rule revision is to provide guidance relating to the statewide public school student progression law eliminating social promotion, by including the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT)-10 as an alternative assessment for students scoring at Level 1 on the grade three Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). Since the original rule development, the FCAT Norm Referenced Test (NRT) has changed from SAT-9 to SAT-10. The effect of this rule revision will be that students who score at Level 1 on the grade three FCAT Reading may be promoted to grade four if an acceptable level of performance is demonstrated on the alternative assessment, SAT-9 or SAT 10.