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Article: TWO CITIES LOCKED IN EDUCATION BATTLE Cleveland choice students enter religious schools Activists in Ohio learned from Milwaukee in fight over voucher system
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 4, 1996
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While supporters of state vouchers to finance religious education
in Milwaukee wait for the courts to rule on the program's
constitutionality, about 1,700 low-income Cleveland students for the
first time are attending private non-sectarian and religious schools
at state expense.
Cleveland and Milwaukee are the only cities in the country that
allow students to use vouchers to attend private schools. And both
programs are mired in court battles over the constitutionality.
"I think there is a very close real-world relationship between both
programs and both lawsuits," said Clint Bolick, an attorney who
represents parents who support vouchers in Cleveland and Milwaukee.
Milwaukee's choice ...