Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2000
Publication Information
17 Const. Comm. 651 (2000)
Abstract
If nothing else, this Review Essay, like Professor Viteritti's book, should be timely. As I write, the United States Supreme Court in Mitchell v. Helms has just decided that publicly funded computers and other educational materials may be loaned to private and religious schools. The decision is widely viewed as signaling, if not determining, the constitutional fate of school-choice experiments like those in Cleveland and Milwaukee. As it happened, just one week before Mitchell, the Sixth Circuit heard oral arguments in Simmons-Harris v. Zelman (the Ohio voucher case) as hundreds of voucher supporters chanted "freedom, freedom!" across the street from the federal court in downtown Cincinnati. A challenge to Florida's statewide voucher program is pending before a state appeals court, and choice proposals will be on the ballot this November in Michigan and California. It is, one activist reports, "High Noon" for vouchers. Enter Joseph Viteritti (cue spaghetti-western-style, ominously poignant whistling), who has written a readable and reasonable, measured yet inspiring, argument for educational choice.
Recommended Citation
Richard W. Garnett,
Brown’s Promise, Blaine’s Legacy,
17 Const. Comm. 651 (2000).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1441
