Zelman v. Simmons-Harris | 536 U.S. 639 (2002) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center
A state can create a program to give parents tuition vouchers that allow their children to attend a private or religious school of their choice, since the vouchers do not promote religious schools alone. The Ohio state legislature created the Pilot Project Scholarship Program to help correct deficiencies in Cleveland public schools. Many schools in certain areas of the city were not meeting even baseline requirements for effective functioning. The program gave tuition vouchers worth up to $2,250 a year to parents of students in the affected areas of the Cleveland City School District so that their children could attend other public or private schools in the city or the surrounding area. Families whose children stayed in public school received financial aid for tutorial assistance. Parents could decide where their children would attend school. Although the vouchers were intended to be allocated according to degree of need, a lottery system was imposed when many more families so
A state can create a program to give parents tuition vouchers that allow their children to attend a private or religious school of their choice, since the vouchers do not promote religious schools alone. The Ohio state legislature created the Pilot Project Scholarship Program to help correct deficiencies in Cleveland public schools. Many schools in certain areas of the city were not meeting even baseline requirements for effective functioning. The program gave tuition vouchers worth up to $2,250 a year to parents of students in the affected areas of the Cleveland City School District s
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