Religious School Vouchers Get Day in Court

By Mark Walsh

Madison, Wis.

Vouchers for religious-school students faced their most important legal test in more than two decades here last week in the small, ornate chamber of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

"All of us here in this room are presented with a defining moment for education reform and for constitutional law," said Mark J. Bredemeier, one of three lawyers in court to defend the state legislature's expansion last year of the Milwaukee school-choice program...