School Choice Works and is Constitutional

"Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the most important U.S. Supreme Court decisions since Brown vs. Board of Education. In Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the court upheld the constitutionality of a school choice program in Cleveland for low-income children long ignored by the educational establishment. The ruling laid to rest the argument of public school apologists that giving parents the means to choose private religious schools for their children's education violated the Constitution's Establishment Clause. The court held that so long as a program is religiously neutral — neither favoring nor disfavoring a religious school option — and so long as that choice is driven by the independent choices of parents, the fact that many families will choose religious schools does not violate the Constitution's guarantees of religious freedom for all nor advance the establishment of religion."