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Article: School vouchers grounded: Ohio appellate court says Cleveland 'pilot scholarship' program won't fly.
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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Supporters of the Ohio "Pilot Scholarship Program" called it an "educational choice" measure, intended to rents a wide array of options regarding their children's schooling. But a state appellate court has found that the program produced very little choice, and instead subsidized religious schools and steered parents toward them.
"The lack of public school participation in the scholarship program, together with the high percentage of participating private schools which are sectarian, renders these choices meaningless," held the Ohio 10th Appellate District Court. "The only real choice available to most parents is between sending their child to a sectarian ...