The use of vouchers has inspired considerable political and legal controversy, especially in church-related schools.
The money will be available to all but technical schools operated for a profit, church-related schools and community colleges.
Every type of organization is represented from church-related schools to other private schools.
But we see no good reason why the federal government should not help provide nonreligious facilities to church-related schools.
Some voters may have been uneasy over a proposal to repeal a ban on aid to church-related schools.
St. Thomas runs the only remaining church-related boarding school for choirboys in the country.
One critical requirement was that church-related schools had to sever their religious connections to get his money.
They were openly, militantly against affirmative action and for giving Federal money to segregated, church-related schools.
The concept is popular among constituents of church-related schools, including those affiliated with Roman Catholicism.
"We are trying to be sensitive to religious sensibilities involved here and abroad, being a church-related school ourselves."