In the Courts
- Summary of Key U.S Supreme Court Cases on School Choice
- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
U.S. Supreme Court on Cleveland Vouchers
- Mitchell v. Helms
Practice of loaning educational equipment to private schools for nonreligious purposes upheld
- Agostini v. Felton
The Supreme Court reverses its 1985 Aguilar v. Felton decision, ruling that allowing public school teachers to provide Title I services to students in religious schools did not violate the First Amendment
- Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District
The U.S. Supreme Court supported public aid to a disabled student attending a religious school
- Witters v. Washington Department of Services for the Blind
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a disabled Washington student who wanted to use his state assistance to attend a religious college
- Aguilar v. Felton
In this 1985 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of Title I funds for public school teachers who assisted students in religious schools
- Mueller v. Allen
Minnesota tax credit for educational expenses upheld
- Committee for Public Education v. Nyquist
The Court overturned several New York programs that provided facility maintenance funding to private schools serving low-income students and tax deductions and tuition reimbursements for low-income parents who sent their children to non-public schools
- Lemon v. Kurtzman
A state action "must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion"
- Board of Education v. Allen
The Court upheld the loaning of textbooks to parochial students in Board of Education v. Allen, using an argument similar to that in Everson
- Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township
School districts can refund bus fare to school children who used public transportation to attend a religious school
- Pierce v. Society of Sisters
Law that all students must attend public schools struck down
- Meyer v. State of Nebraska
The Court ruled that teachers can instruct in languages other than English
- Blaine Amendments: www.blaineamendments.org
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
- The Struggle for School Choice Policy After Zelman: Regulation vs. the Free Market
by H. Lillian Omand
The Cato Institute
October 29, 2003 (Policy Analysis No. 495)
- True Private Choice: A Practical Guide to School Choice after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
by Marie Gryphon
The Cato Institute
February 4, 2003 ( Policy Analysis No. 466) - School Choice in the Courts
by Melanie Looney
National Center for Policy Analysis
August 7, 2000 (Policy Backgrounder 153)
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