ZELMAN V. SIMMONS-HARRIS was a landmark Supreme Court case upholding, in a 5-4 decision announced on June 27, 2002, the constitutionality of an Ohio law providing vouchers to Cleveland students to ...

Although the Supreme Court’s June 2002 decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, holding that school choice is constitutional, sparked strong interest in choice programs across the nation, it did not ...

In Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002), the justices upheld private-school choice programs that included religious schools. Since then, 29 states, with Texas days away from joining them, have created ...

That doesn’t mean a right only to a public school education. The Supreme Court has recognized, in cases such as Zelman v. Simmons-Harris and Plyler v. Doe, that states have broad authority to provide ...

In 2002, his advocacy for school choice culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, in which Cleveland's pioneering school voucher program was upheld. Three years ...

Do you remember where you were when the Zelman v. Simmons Harris ruling came down? I do. It was a beautiful spring day in Washington, D.C., and my pensive mood turned sunny upon hearing that the ...

Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris that voucher programs that include religious schools do not violate the First Amendment’s establishment clause.