Learning opportunities - school choice - includes related article

National Review, Sept 12, 1994 by David Boaz

In Georgia a case filed in June seeks to implement a 1961 law that offered a voucher to families eager to flee newly integrated public schools. Ignored for 30 years, the law was rediscovered recently and may ironically be used to let inner-city minority children escape the schools their parents fought to enter. The 1961 law was supported by state Representative Zell Miller, who now burnishes his liberal credentials as governor by opposing vouchers for poor kids. And in Milwaukee, while Williams and Norquist pursue a legislative strategy, Landmark Legal Foundation attorney Mark Bredemeier is suing on behalf of parents who want to use the current voucher to attend religious schools. Bredemeier argues that granting a voucher only for secular schools restricts the parents' free exercise of religion.

Mr. Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute and editor of Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City.