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Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Constitutional Law

2002

School vouchers

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School Vouchers And The Constitution - Permissible, Impermissible, Or Required?, Gary J. Simson Jul 2002

School Vouchers And The Constitution - Permissible, Impermissible, Or Required?, Gary J. Simson

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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The First Amendment And The Socialization Of Children: Compulsory Public Education And Vouchers, Steven H. Shiffrin Jul 2002

The First Amendment And The Socialization Of Children: Compulsory Public Education And Vouchers, Steven H. Shiffrin

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Criticism of American public schools has been a cottage industry since the Nineteenth Century. In recent years the criticism has gone to the roots. Critics charge that to leave children imprisoned in the public school monopoly is to risk the standardization of our children; it is to socialize them in the preferred views of the State. They argue that it would be better to adopt a system of vouchers or private scholarships to support a multiplicity of private schools. A multiplicity of such schools, it is said, would enhance parental choice, would foster competition, and would promote a diversity of …