Judge Overturns Expanded Wis. Voucher Plan

A Wisconsin state judge last week struck down the 1995 expansion of the Milwaukee voucher program and ruled against including religious schools in the 7-year-old school choice experiment.

Judge Paul B. Higginbotham of Dane County Circuit Court in Madison ruled that the inclusion of religious schools violated the state constitution's provisions against taxpayer support of sectarian institutions.

"Millions of dollars would be directed to religious institutions that are pervasively sectarian with a clear mission to indoctrinate Wisconsin students with their religious beliefs," Judge Higginbotham said in...