Either Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz isn't too bright and in over her head, or she's blinded by partisanship. Since the two categories are not mutually exclusive, let's say she's both.

State reading scores remained the same this year, according to FCAT results announced Monday.

The inaugural year of "FCAT 2.0" testing showed steady performance by students in grades 3-10.

Math scores in grades 3-8 also matched last year's results.

Department of Education officials said the "2.0" scores were based on new testing content, but could be "linked" to previous years' scores for valid comparisons.

Education Commissioner Eric Smith said the 2012 reading and math exams -- with new cut scores -- would likely reveal more year-to-year differences.

Proving the decentralized nature of their movement, tea partiers aren't jumping to join a group's protest at a South Florida mosque on Tuesday night.

Members of Tea Party Fort Lauderdale -- along with allied Christian and pro-Israel groups -- will demonstrate outside the Masjid Jamaat al-Mumineed mosque in Margate at 7 p.m.

The coalition wants the mosque shut down because its chief religious leader, Izhar Khan, was arrested last month and charged with conspiracy to finance the Taliban in Pakistan.

Florida's water-management districts are facing big revenue cuts, but the new leader of the state's largest system isn't sweating.

"There are a lot of inefficiencies," Melissa Meeker, executive director of the South Florida Water Management District, told the second annual Florida Water Forum in Orlando on Friday.

Bloated by class-size reduction edicts, Florida's teaching force grew by a larger percentage than any other state's between 2003 and 2009 -- even though student enrollment inched up just 1.2 percent during that period.

To contain future personnel and related costs, which Florida TaxWatch estimated at a whopping $40 billion over the next 10 years, the 2011 Legislature scaled back the class-size mandates.

Lawmakers expect their modest move will shave expenses some $70 million a year by giving schools a bit more flexibility in meeting rigid class-size reduction formulas.