[summer]

Shapiro stated that private school students in Florida are not required to take the statewide assessment exam. While this is technically true
Starwind, see my reply to capecodder above...

[summer]

capecodder, In light of the date of this letter -- April 199, which is only 4 months after Gov. Bush first took office as governor -- it may well be that he was initially planning to require the voucher private school students to take state assessments, but, after thinking about it more, dropped that requirement. It seems to me this is what happened, because I know the students are not required to do this at all in FL.