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Boalt Hall Hosts Debate on School Vouchers
Are school vouchers a constitutional method for reforming education or an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state?
On Wednesday, May 1, Boalt Professor Jesse Choper will join Professor Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of Southern California Law School to discuss Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will determine whether a school voucher program in Cleveland is a constitutional use of taxpayer money in support of education or an unconstitutional government promotion of religion.
Choper is the author of an amicus curiae brief in favor of the school voucher program. Chemerinsky contributed to an amicus curiae brief arguing that the vouchers are unconstitutional. The event is sponsored by the Federalist Society and is open to the Boalt community. For more information, please contact Erin Campbell at 510-643-8010 or ecampbell@law.berkeley.edu.
(4/25/02) | 
