The advertisements are everywhere -- on local television stations it's Everest Institute, or Brown Mackie College. On South Florida highway billboards, it's the University of Phoenix. All are selling a quick, convenient college education, and the dream of a better life.

Florida is part of a consortium of 26 states that will receive a total of $170 million in federal funding to help develop new tests to assess students' mathematics and language arts skills, the U.S. secretary of education announced Thursday.

SCHOOL SCENEPEMBROKE PINES The Pembroke Pines Charter School Foundation is kicking off the 2010-11 school year by hosting a College Tuition Raffle.

The FCAT you've come to know — and often complain about — is changing this school year as the state pushes higher academic standards and new testing.

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