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Florida education officials discuss SAT alternative focused on ‘Western tradition’
DeSantis and other Florida GOP leaders are discussing a Christian-based option to the SAT for college-bound Florida students. - Michael Laughlin/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS

Florida education officials discuss SAT alternative focused on ‘Western tradition’

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republican leaders explore alternatives to the College Board’s AP classes and tests, top state officials have been meeting with the founder of an education testing company supporters say is focused on the “great classical and Christian tradition.” The Classic Learning Test, founded in 2015, is used primarily by private schools and home-schooling families and is rooted in the classical education model, which focuses on the “centrality of the Western tradition.” The founder of the company, Jeremy Tate, said the test is meant to be an alternati...

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