U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Review Vouchers Case

Seeks to overturn a California anti-voucher decision

WASHINGTON, May 8 /Christian Newswire/ -- Lawyers for an extremely gifted child filed a petition for review with the United States Supreme Court today. If review is granted, hundreds of thousands of extremely gifted children may be able to receive school vouchers to fund their special learning needs. The petition, filed by the Pro-Family Law Center seeks to overturn decisions by the California courts concluding that a voucher for the education of an extremely gifted child is not permitted by federal law since these children supposedly do not have "special needs." (Full Story)