. FCAT scores are on the way The latest memo from Florida K-12 chancellor Frances Haithcock to superintendents says districts should begin receiving Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test results late today, with a public release expected Tuesday. Student reports for parents, along with letters of apology from testing contractor NCS Pearson, would then arrive July 6-8 for delivery. There's still no word on when the company will send its multimillion-dollar late fee. The Florida Department of Education says Pearson owes it $3.025 million for late delivery last month of the third-grade reading and math results and 10th grade retake results the only results in. A letter sent to Pearson last week says the DOE expects payment within 14 days. . Around Tampa Bay Making up time: Pasco County high school students who failed math or English during the school year can try to recover their credits in a new computerized course. Reconsider: The Hernando County School Board is being shortsighted by rejecting a property tax rate increase of 25 cents for every $1,000 of taxable value, the St. Petersburg Times editorializes. . Who's for changing class sizes? All four major candidates for Florida governor, that's who. Democrat Alex Sink, Republicans Bill McCollum and Rick Scott, and independent Bud Chiles support Amendment 8 to ease the 2002 state constitutional amendment to school averages with caps. A coalition of legislative, education and business leaders backing the amendment, which goes to voters in November, announced what it termed this 'surprise unanimity' to what it calls the 'right sizing' of class size. 'It's very encouraging that the candidates for governor are not letting politics get in the way of supporting good public policy,' said Sen. Don Gaetz of Niceville, who sponsored the amendment. Added Bill Montford, executive director of the state's superintendents organization: 'In the next few weeks, school superintendents across Florida will make some hard decisions to comply with the 2002 class size mandates that go into effect this fall that will impact students, teachers and parents across our state. Once these decisions are made, it will become crystal clear why voting yes on Amendment 8 and providing local educators with flexibility to meet the goals of the class size amendment is critical to protecting public education in Florida.' Consider the campaign for Amendment 8 officially under way. . This week Tuesday Pinellas County School Board, 10 a.m., 301 Fourth St. SW, Largo . We want your questions Got a question you're dying to ask the candidates? Well then, fire away. The Gradebook is soliciting questions for an Aug. 3 candidates forum cosponsored by the Pinellas Education Foundation, the Pinellas County Council of PTAs, WPDS-Ch. 14 and the St. Petersburg Times. Questions posed to candidates that night will be taken from those submitted at the Gradebook. The deadline for submission is July 16. If you want to remain anonymous, that's okay. But if you'd like to include your name and other pertinent information, that would be good, too. It would be nice if we could tell the candidates whether a question came from a parent, a teacher, a student, a businessperson, etc. Okay? Let 'er rip. . What do you have to say? Do you support Amendment 8 to leave class size rules at school averages? No 59% 163 votes Yes 41% 115 votes To see updated tallies and to vote, go to blogs.tampabay.com/schools. Compiled by Times staff . What do you have to say? Do you support Amendment 8 to leave class size rules at school averages? No 59% 163 votes Yes 41% 115 votes To see updated tallies and to vote, go to blogs.tampabay.com/schools. Compiled by Times staff . We want your questions Got a question you're dying to ask the candidates? Well then, fire away. The Gradebook is soliciting questions for an Aug. 3 candidates forum cosponsored by the Pinellas Education Foundation, the Pinellas County Council of PTAs, WPDS-Ch. 14 and the St. Petersburg Times. Questions posed to candidates that night will be taken from those submitted at the Gradebook. The deadline for submission is July 16. If you want to remain anonymous, that's okay. But if you'd like to include your name and other pertinent information, that would be good, too. It would be nice if we could tell the candidates whether a question came from a parent, a teacher, a student, a businessperson, etc. Okay? Let 'er rip. 