Latest Front for Fight on Choice: Washington State
In a twist in the legal battle over school choice, two college students seeking education credentials sued the state of Washington last week for the right to complete their student-teaching requirements at private religious schools. The state prohibits the practice based on state constitutional language barring government aid to religion.
The lawsuit is backed by the Institute for Justice, the Washington, D.C.-based legal organization that last June helped win the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program. The Washington state case is the latest move in the institute's strategy to try to remove state constitutional roadblocks to vouchers and other forms of school choice. Last month, the institute backed a lawsuit filed in Maine seeking to add religious schools to the choices available to parents in towns...
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