Florida Department of Education is the state education agency of Florida. It governs public education and manages funding and testing for local educational agencies (school boards).

As you asking here I am telling Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or the FCAT/FCAT 2.0 (Pronounced eff-cat), was the standardized test used in the primary and secondary public schools of Florida.

The FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) was administered annually, in late February and early to mid-March as well as April, to all public school students in grades three through eleven.

Florida Department of Education Commissioners
C. Thurston Chase (1868–1870)
Henry Quarles (1870–1871)
Rev. Charles Beecher (1871–1873)
Jonathan C. Gibbs (1873–1874)
Samuel B. McLin (1875–1877)
William Penn Haisley (1877–1881)
Eleazer K. Foster (1881–1884)
Albert Jonathan Russell (1884–1893)
William N. Sheats (1893–1905) and (1913–1922)
William M. Holloway (1905–1913)
William S. Cawthon (1922–1937)
Colin English (1937–1949)
Floyd Thomas Christian (Supt. of Public Instruction 1965-1969; Commissioner of Education in 1969-1974)
Ralph D. Turlington (1974–1986)
Betty Castor (1986–1994)
Douglas L. Jamerson (1994–1995)
Frank T. Brogan (1995–1999)
Tom Gallagher (1999–2001)
Charlie Crist (2001–2003)
Jim Horne (2003–2004)
John L. Winn (2004–2007)
Jeanine Blomberg (interim) (2007)
Eric J. Smith (October 5, 2007 – June 10, 2011)
Gerard Robinson (June 11, 2011 – 2012)
Tony Bennett (January – August, 2013)
Pam Stewart (August 2013)