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Last October Florida's 120,000 high school juniors sat down to take a new exam: a Functional Literacy Test ordered by the state legislature to determine whether, as critics had charged, state schools had been graduating as many as 10,000 virtually illiterate seniors each year. The three-hour exam, divided into math and verbal sections, focused on students' ability to cope with such simple tasks as filling out job applications and reading labels on canned goods. The exam, said the state testing director, Thomas Fisher, was "very, very basic" -seventh-or eighth-grade level...
...decision to provide hot breakfasts during exam period follows CHUL's 15-to-4 vote in favor of the measure...
According to Fox's decision, those Houses that now serve cold breakfast will offer one hot egg entree during January exam period and will limit their hours to the period of service for hot breakfast Houses--7:30 to 9:30 a.m. The hot breakfast Houses will continue to offer two breakfast entrees at regular hours...
Providing the added service will cost about $1 per student, for the January exam period, Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, said yesterday...
Those deliberations came to an end this week when, after a couple of student demonstrations in the interim, Fox announced that, no, he would return the money instead of funding hot breakfasts with it, but yes, the University would provide an additional egg entree during January, and possibly May, exam periods...