[Amore]

Thanks for the ping, but I'm still confused (I didn't see the answer as I quickly browsed through this thread.) While most of the McKay scholarship students ARE in private school, as you & I have discussed before, the McKay program DOES allow for transfer to a different public school. Now, in those situations, do they take the FCAT? I bet they do because, along that line, there are officially diagnosed, learning disabled students (who have their OEP -- I forget what those initials exactly stand for) and who would probably qualify for the McKay program but are still in public school. I know for a fact OEP kids take the FCAT, but are their results treated differently? Not counted in the official counts? Or graded on a curve, so to speak? Thanks,

[summer]

I'll bet you're right - if they choose a different public schools, they take whatever assessments are required. I'm not a special ed teacher, so I can't recall exactly what they take, but, I do believe they take the state tests. (Sometimes with a longer testing time, etc.)