State of Ohio, et al.
Petitioners
Judith L. French, Counsel of RecordIn 1995, the Ohio State Assembly responded to a financial crisis in the Cleveland public schools by passing the Pilot Project Scholarship Program, which created scholarships — or vouchers — that lower-income parents in troubled school districts could use to pay for the private school education of their children. In January 1996, a group of citizens sued the State of Ohio and two of its school officials to block the law. They alleged that the Ohio program resulted in State money being given to religious schools, thereby violating the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s…
