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| June 20, 2000 | Marshall, Janet | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

By writing well, Florida's schoolchildren have done what a team of lawyers could not do: stop the state's voucher program from expanding.

Students in Florida's 78 F-rated schools improved their writing performance so much that none of the schools will get F grades this year.

That means no new students will qualify for vouchers this year.

And instead of becoming the nation's largest "opportunity scholarship" program, as it could have, Florida's experiment will remain limited to the Pensacola children who got vouchers last year.

"The system works," Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday afternoon. "The threat of opportunity scholarships, I think, refocused districts."

The writing improvements were extraordinary at many of the 78 schools, including the two Pensacola schools…

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