Long-Lost Voucher Law Stirs Choice Movement in Ga.

By Peter Schmidt

Advocates of school choice in Georgia have unearthed a long-forgotten school-voucher law that they hope to revive in order to win public funding for private school tuition.

It was unclear last week whether the 1961 law, which critics say was intended to resist school desegregation, is still alive or was killed by subsequent legislation.

Nevertheless, the existence of the statute appears to have spurred a voucher movement by prompting hundreds of parents to ask the state to give them money to send their...