High Court High Noon
When the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the topic of Cleveland's school vouchers next week in a case destined for landmark status, the central issue will be the constitutionality of including religious schools in a state program that gives tuition aid to children from low-income families.
The wisdom or efficacy of such government benefits is not really before the justices in the Feb. 20 oral arguments. But here in Cleveland, the policy debate over the voucher plan has continued to simmer since the program was enacted by the Ohio legislature in 1995.
"Choice empowers parents," Christine Suma, a mother of 12 who has four children attending a parochial school using state vouchers, said one day recently. "If you can offer a government grant to my daughter who attends St. John's University, which is Catholic, I question why you can't do...
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