As we await school choice court decisions in Wisconsin and Ohio this year, it becomes increasingly clear that too much of the discussion of school vouchers remains focused on the separation of church and state. The ACLU, teacher unions, and other groups have challenged these pilot programs in court, citing violation of the First Amendment's establishment of religion clause.
School vouchers work for kids and their parents.
Together these programs serve seven thousand low-income children. Only the private voucher programs allow children to attend religious schools. The data show that vouchers work for low-income children. Keeping children in school is traditionally an enormous problem in urban schools. In Milwaukee's privately funded voucher program, by comparison, the rate is only 4 percent.