60% of Fort Worth school district 8th-graders failed science

Star-Telegram.com 05/17/2007 60% of Fort Worth school district 8th-graders failed science: "FORT WORTH -- Three of every five eighth-graders in the Fort Worth school district failed the science portion of last month's Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, down from last year's 53 percent passing rate and well behind the state average of 70 percent, according to preliminary scores released Wednesday."