Legal Opinion
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 27, 2002No. 00-1751PublishedCited by 313 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
The State of Ohio has established a pilot program designed to provide educational choices to families with children who *644reside in the Cleveland City School District. The question presented is whether this program offends the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution. We hold that it does not.
There are more than 75,000 children enrolled in the Cleveland City School District. The majority of these children are from low-income and minority families. Few of these families enjoy the means to send their children to any school other than an inner-city public school. For more than a…
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