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• An unlikely team brings about vouchers success | Only an issue as emotionally charged and divisive as school vouchers could have brought the likes of Clint Bolick and Fannie Lewis together (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)

Voucher analysis:

• A victory for vouchers | The Supreme Court upholds school choice. But will its decision be the final word on education reform? (Time)
• Supreme Court's voucher ruling dramatic, not surprising | As foreseeable as outcome might have been, the feeling was inescapable, among dissenters and others, that the Court crossed a new threshold (Tony Mauro, Freedom Forum)
• Voucher ruling may boost choice movement | Battle now shifts to states (The Washington Post)
• Future church-state battles loom | Will vouchers used at religious schools come with secular strings? (Rick Garnett, The Wall Street Journal, subscription required)
• In states, hurdles loom | Blaine amendments, which forbid using tax dollars for religious schools, are a serious threat to voucher supporters because the Supreme Court does not have the final word (The New York Times)
• Green light, red flag | Opening the floodgates for school vouchers won't help Republicans (William Saletan, Slate.com)
• Voucher question far from resolved | Despite a rush to judgment by some, it's too early to tell what the Supreme Court's opinion means for the future of education (The Baltimore Sun)
• Voucher decision divides blacks | The massive chasm among blacks on public education is yet another example of how mainstream black leaders often march to a far different tune than poor and working class blacks (Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet)
• Coming to terms with our Constitution | Are the courts confused about religion? (Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune)
• One small step | Big challenges still lie ahead for school-choice proponents (Thomas J. Bray, The Wall Street Journal)

Pro-voucher opinion:

• A victory for 'ordered liberty' | The Supreme Court again appreciates religion and federalism (William J. Bennett, The Wall Street Journal, subscription required)
• A promise long deferred | Voucher verdict decides an issue as old as King George (Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Washington Post)
• Vouchers answer new segregation in our schools | Poor children are being blocked from getting a decent education (Paul Goldman, Los Angeles Times)
• More choices for students, and more choices for teachers | Voucher opponents have long preferred to debate the question of what's constitutional. Now it's time to consider what's best for our kids (Editorial, Chicago Tribune)
• Being freed from our failing government schools | The high court issued what amounts to an emancipation proclamation for parents whose children have been sentenced to failing government schools for decades (Dennis Byrne, Chicago Tribune)
• No need to fear vouchers | Our national stance on church-state separation need not be so rigid and absolute that it blocks potentially valuable school-reform experiments. But let's not oversell it, either (Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune)

Anti-voucher opinion:

• America still hates vouchers | Liberals can rest easy: no matter what the Supreme Court says, voters won't support the programs (Jonathan Alter, Newsweek)
• Let's not rush into vouchers | We see vouchers creating more harm than good (Editorial, Las Vegas Sun)
• Voucher victory | The court unwisely upholds an Ohio plan (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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July (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46