Nationwide Campaign Targets Private School Vouchers

Two leading civil rights and liberal advocacy groups joined forces last week to launch a nationwide campaign against private school vouchers.

The NAACP and People for the American Way said the alliance was necessary to battle what they called a threat that would damage public schools and divert tax money to private and religious schools.

The groups launched the effort with a daylong "community mobilization" late last week at a Baptist church in Baltimore, the home of the National Association for the...