Florida officials propose pushing state testing to final three weeks of the school year

In just a couple of weeks, Florida K-12 schools will begin the grueling three-month stretch of administering mandatory statewide student assessments.

But next year, those tests might not happen until the end of the school year, if lawmakers pass a proposal this spring to reform Florida's lengthy testing schedule.

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