Open Cases

• Arizona
  
• Georgia
  
• Maine
  

U.S Supreme Court Cases

• Summary of Key U.S Supreme Court Cases on School Choice
  
  
• Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
  U.S. Supreme Court on Cleveland Vouchers
  
  
• Mitchell v. Helms
  Practice of loaning educational equipment to private schools for nonreligious purposes upheld
  
  
• Agostini v. Felton
  The Supreme Court reverses its 1985 Aguilar v. Felton decision, ruling that allowing public school teachers to provide Title I services to students in religious schools did not violate the First Amendment
  
• Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District
  The U.S. Supreme Court supported public aid to a disabled student attending a religious school
  
  
• Witters v. Washington Department of Services for the Blind
  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a disabled Washington student who wanted to use his state assistance to attend a religious college
  
  
• Aguilar v. Felton
  In this 1985 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of Title I funds for public school teachers who assisted students in religious schools
  
  
• Mueller v. Allen
  Minnesota tax credit for educational expenses upheld
  
  
• Committee for Public Education v. Nyquist
  The Court overturned several New York programs that provided facility maintenance funding to private schools serving low-income students and tax deductions and tuition reimbursements for low-income parents who sent their children to non-public schools
  
  
• Lemon v. Kurtzman
  A state action "must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion"
  
  
• Board of Education v. Allen
  The Court upheld the loaning of textbooks to parochial students in Board of Education v. Allen, using an argument similar to that in Everson
  
  
• Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township
  School districts can refund bus fare to school children who used public transportation to attend a religious school
  
  
• Pierce v. Society of Sisters
  Law that all students must attend public schools struck down
  
  
• Meyer v. State of Nebraska
  The Court ruled that teachers can instruct in languages other than English

Research

• Blaine Amendments: www.blaineamendments.org
  The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
  
  
• The Struggle for School Choice Policy After Zelman: Regulation vs. the Free Market
  by H. Lillian Omand
  The Cato Institute
  October 29, 2003 (Policy Analysis No. 495)
  
  
• True Private Choice: A Practical Guide to School Choice after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
  by Marie Gryphon
  The Cato Institute
  February 4, 2003 ( Policy Analysis No. 466)
• School Choice in the Courts
  by Melanie Looney
  National Center for Policy Analysis
  August 7, 2000 (Policy Backgrounder 153)

Legal Representation

• The Institute for Justice
  
• American Center for Law and Justice
  
• Home School Legal Defense Association
  
• The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty