Letters

To the Editor:

Education Week 's coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court's school voucher ruling was pretty good, but some comments are in order ( "Charting the New Landscape of School Choice," July 10, 2002).

You listed the seven state referendums directly on vouchers, but there were, over the past 35 years, another 18 statewide referendums on tuition tax credits (a voucher analogue) and on proposals to amend state constitutions to permit vouchers or other forms of tax aid to nonpublic schools. In those 25 referendums, voters rejected vouchers, their analogues, or their precursor amendments by an average 68...