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Private employers will need to change when they perform a criminal background check on candidates in order to comply.
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Alachua County Public Schools began taking standardized tests with the new Florida Assessment of Student Thinking less than a month into the school year. Students in voluntary prekindergarten through 10th grade will participate in this assessment three times a year. Florida Assessment of Student Thinking replaces the end-of-the-year Florida Standards Assessments and monitors student progress in the fall, winter and spring. Each cycle tests students’ knowledge of the entire year’s material in English Language Arts and mathematics, according to the Florida Department of Education. But critics of the new assessment say more time spent testing means less instructional time.
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State data show over 1,000 instances of the problem in the past five years.
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Joshua Figueroa, 32, is charged with fleeing the scene of her death.
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About 60 people gathered near Century Tower on the university's campus.
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