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Vouching for choice

The school choice movement won its biggest legal battle ever when Wisconsin's Supreme Court voted 4-2 last week to allow up to 15,000 low-income children to attend private religious schools with the help of state vouchers. People for the American Way announced immediately that it plans to appeal the ruling on the grounds that it violates the separation of church and state. But Justice Donald Steinmetz addressed that issue in his ruling, saying that a student would qualify for a voucher "not because he or she is a Catholic, a Jew, a Muslim, or an atheist; it is because he or she is from a poor family and is a student in the embattled Milwaukee Public Schools." Gov. Tommy Thompson, an advocate of vouchers, also discounted the criticism. "Religious values aren't our problem," he said. "Low test scores are."

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