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Florida officials must rein in school vouchers to ensure costs don't just drain public schools and create a new education bureaucracy.

LAKELAND — Charlotte Sabin, 13, has been opting out of state Florida Standards Assessment testing for five years now, beginning when she was in the third grade, with no repercussions.  “I was kind of nervous because I was the only one in my school doing it,” she said about not participating with the rest of her third-grade class. “But I also felt really cool because I was sitting there going, ‘All you have to take this test and I’m going to go eat doughnuts.' The next year, I had a friend who opted out and it was cool because that was the only time in my life I’ve ever...