Cracking the education monopoly with vouchers

With the blessing of the Zelman decision, the last big civil rights battle - enabling poor minority children to attend good schools - can now begin in earnest, writes Sol Stern in the autumn issue of City Journal. It is tough to say whether teacher unions or staunch school choice advocates - backed by businessmen whose bottom line suffers when young hires prove functionally illiterate and innumerate - have deeper pockets for the post-Zelman state and local fights ahead. But what is clear, says Stern, is that the foundations of the education monopoly have cracked. Learn "What the Voucher Victory Means" and read about key players in the ongoing battle over school choice at http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_what_the_voucher.html.