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Classical schools are an experiment that has just begun, small now but with all the ingredients of success. 

By Akil Bello | Word In Black - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has approved the Classic Learning Test, a ideologically-driven test that exposes the unscientific and discriminatory history of standardized testing.

A practice test on the initiative’s website includes material from Plato, Cicero, Thomas Jefferson, the German-Dutch Catholic priest Thomas à Kempis, and onet...

Medicare is now going to negotiate the prices of medications. Also, educators are trying to navigate controversial new rules about school curriculum.

Both the SAT and ACT have criticized the new DeSantis-backed test

The Classic Learning Test, an exam that is said to be more rooted in Western classical and Christian traditions and is currently used in undergraduate admissions at more than 200 mostly Christian colleges across the country, can now be used as an alternative to SAT and ACT, for admission to all universities in the State University System of Florida, the system’s Board of Governors announced Friday.

Florida high school students applying for colleges and universities in the state now have a new standardized testing option in addition to the ACT and the SAT.

A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

Florida's state university system voted to accept the Classic Learning Test as an alternative to the SAT and ACT for college admission, according to the Florida Board of Governors.

The new Classic Learning Test has been pushed by conservative politicians and religious activists as an alternative to the SAT.