By Jeremy Wallace
Tampa Bay Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
TALLAHASSEE — Floridians are failing the state’s written driver’s license test in record numbers with three out of every five flunking through the first six months of 2015.
State officials expected some applicants would have trouble adjusting to a new written test implemented in January but acknowledge it erupted into an unexpected problem when they discovered more than 80 percent of drivers in some counties were unable to pass.
That has prompted state officials to dig through the test looking for flawed questions and removing them from future exams to try to lift test scores, said Boyd Dickerson-Walden, director of the division of motor services for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
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