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With thousands of other people commenting on yesterday's Supreme Court decision allowing school vouchers and Wednesday's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision banning the Pledge of Allegiance, you don't need any more commentary from Weblog (Actually, just finding all these stories took so long this morning that there's no time left to write.) Those aren't the only big stories going on, either—keep scrolling down for more.

Voucher decision news and reaction:

• Supreme Court upholds voucher system that pays religious schools' tuition | The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the use of public money for religious school tuition in a decisive 5-to-4 ruling (The New York Times)
  
  
• Cleveland program ruled constitutional (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  
• Court upholds Ohio school vouchers | Ruling says program offers poor families freedom of choice (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Questions about the school voucher system | What yesterday's Supreme Court decision means to you (USA Today)
  
  
• Parents embrace school voucher ruling | Some parents embrace school voucher ruling; Florida critics vow to press court challenge (Associated Press)
  
  
• Voters protective of public schools, wary of vouchers | Backers vow to push for parent choice (The Washington Post)

Voucher decision analysis:

• The battleground shifts | The ruling would seem to hold at least the potential of a turnaround for a movement that has attracted an unusual assortment of advocates—from conservatives to religious leaders to parents in urban minority neighborhoods to a sitting president of the United States—but that has seemed in danger of drifting off the horizon (The New York Times)
  
  
• Voucher backers see opening for a wider agenda | Legislators around the country are likely to begin exploring ways of spending money previously reserved for public education (The New York Times)
  
  
• Church, state wall is lowered in schools (USA Today)
  
  
• Private school aid efforts will face state challenges | Legal barriers likely to impede use of funds (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Ruling could galvanize school choice advocates | Coucher or tax-credit programs might soon be enacted in the District of Columbia, Texas, Minnesota and Colorado (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  
• Decision gives few hints of how high a wall remains | Validating school vouchers, the Supreme Court either did little more than apply well-worn constitutional precedents, or else it made a profound shift in doctrine on religion issues (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Next barrier to vouchers is selling idea to the public | Court offers momentum, but it has to be shown that the concept is the answer to the school problem (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Voucher fight expected in Colo (The Denver Post)
  
  
• High court backs vouchers: School choice decision won't affect Massachusetts | State constitution still contains the so-called Anti-Aid Amendment that bars giving public money to religious schools (Boston Herald)

Voucher opinion:

• Vouchers pass court test, face real-world challenge | Whether this constitutional green light will spur educational reform is far from certain—particularly if states seize on the ruling to build voucher programs that aren't focused on those who need them most: poor students in failing schools (Editorial, USA Today)
  
  
• Vouchers have overcome | Free at last, private school choice is free at last (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• The supremes pledge allegiance to God | Praise the Lord and pass the vouchers to the churches! (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate.com)
  
  
• The wrong ruling on vouchers | The Supreme Court's decision on school vouchers was a bad decision on constitutional grounds, and a bad one for American education (The New York Times)
  
  

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