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• The refining of religious neutrality | Yesterday the Supreme Court played a calming role in the culture wars by declaring that the era of strict separation between church and state is over (Jeffrey Rosen, The New York Times)
  
  
• Letting parents decide | Vouchers may offer answers for some children. In fact, our quarrel with the Cleveland program would be that the vouchers are too small (Editorial, The Washington Post)
  
  
• A win for America's children | It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Supreme Court's decision yesterday in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (Rod Paige, The Washington Post)
  
  
• Implacable enemies of choice | The opposition to school choice for the poor is the starkest immorality in contemporary politics (George F. Will, The Washington Post)
  
  
• The price of vouchers | The court needed to do an advanced yoga twist to find that a state program dedicating 96 percent of its funds to religious schools does not advance religion (Editorial, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Kausfiles' (tentative) simple unified court theory | Tying the "pledge" and voucher cases together (Mickey Kaus)
  
  
• Voucher ruling helps clarify church-state role | The Supreme Court Thursday rightly extended a trend it began in the middle 1980s to give religion the same standing that secular institutions have in the public square (Editorial, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Up from mediocrity | Vouchers in Milwaukee: The Polly Williams story (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal, March 29, 1990)
  
  
• Opening the schoolhouse door | The politicians can't stop school choice now (John Fund, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• School vouchers win backing of high court | The 5-4 ruling allows use of taxpayer money to send students to parochial campuses. It's a major victory for 'choice' movement (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Good news for education | The Supreme Court says that when the government gives people a voucher to spend on education and they choose to spend it at a religious school, this no more constitutes government endorsement of religion than spending G.I. Bill money at Pepperdine (Samuel Walker, National Review Online)
  
  
• Choice win | The Court made it clear that while the Establishment Clause forbids, well, "establishments" of religion, it does not require reformers to discriminate against religious schools and the families who choose them (Richard W. Garnett, National Review Online)
  
  
• On to the state legislatures | The outcome of the case is not terribly surprising, given that the Court has ruled numerous times in recent years in favor of neutral aid to religious institutions. What is surprising, however, is how solid the decision is (Robert Alt, National Review Online)
  
  
• What's next for school choice? | Lots of possibilities, but also plenty of problems (John J. Miller, National Review Online)
  
  
• The stuff of kids' dreams | While we chalk one up for freedom, we should not forget how hard the struggle has been and how many people have helped bring about this victory (Clint Bolick, National Review Online)

Pledge of Allegiance news:

• Judge blocks pledge decision during appeals | Republicans seek political gain, but ruling spurs bipartisan ire (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Two officials seek review of decision on pledge | Attorney General John Ashcroft and Gov. Gray Davis of California both want full United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse panel's decision (The New York Times)
  
  
• GOP eyes pledge as a political issue | Republicans say a federal appeals court ruling highlights the importance of ending Senate Democrats' blockade of President Bush's judicial nominees (The Washington Times)
  
  

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