TheList

Updated list of scholarship opportunities (and related topics) with an emphasis toward (but not exclusive to) Historically Black Colleges and Universities and African-American Students
-Barry Wynn

Saturday, August 30, 2003

FCAT indicates minorities lag far behind in school

District suggests scores reflect wealth, poverty

By Kimberly C. Moore
FLORIDA TODAY

: "At Cocoa High School, 34 percent of the white students tested could read at or above grade level. Only eight percent of the 245 black students who took the FCAT at Cocoa High are reading proficiently -- meaning 92 percent failed the FCAT reading exam in 2003. "