Supreme Court Declines To Hear Vt. 'Tuitioning' Case

By Mark Walsh

Washington

The U.S. Supreme Court has passed up yet another opportunity to consider the constitutionality of publicly financed vouchers for religious schools.

The court declined last month to hear the appeal of a group of Vermont parents who sought to require the state to include religious schools in its small-scale tuition-payment program for towns without their own high schools.

In separate action before its holiday recess, the court also declined to disturb an Ohio Supreme Court ruling that public high school principals are not public figures for the purposes of libel law. The state high court ruling makes it easier for a high school principal to prevail as the plaintiff...