The First Amendment was not written to keep religion out of public life. It was intended to keep government from deciding whose voice should belong.

The court ruled this, too, unconstitutional. Finally, in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002), the court upheld a school choice program that allowed public funds to follow families — whether they ...

In Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002), a 5-4 Court ruled that states may voluntarily include religious schools in a private school voucher program, so long as parents ultimately got to decide whether ...

His argument reflects the 2002 case of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, a 5-4 decision in which the court ruled that states may (but are not required to) include religious schools in taxpayer private ...

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 ...

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 ...

SUSAN TAVE ZELMAN, SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF OHIO, et al. v. DORIS SIMMONS-HARRIS et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 27, 2002. The case ...

Vouchers received a big shot in the arm in 2002, when the Supreme Court ruled in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris that the First ...

But in 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, upheld an Ohio educational program that offered economically disadvantaged parents vouchers for use at whatever schools they chose ...

McCluskey points to the school choice fight in the courts as far back as 2002 with the Supreme Court case Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. In it, the Supreme Court ruled an Ohio school voucher program ...