“Recently, a class action lawsuit was filed in New Jersey representing more than 60,000 students in 96 failing schools in 25 districts and seeking to achieve a statewide voucher system. Clint Bolick, President of the Alliance for School Choice, a major sponsor of the lawsuit, declared, “This is the first class action education case seeking a remedy not for the system, but for the kids.” The Rev. Reginald T. Jackson, executive director of the Black Ministers Council of New Jersey, also a party to the lawsuit, declared, “A quality education is a civil right, and that is being denied to far too many of our children.” The Alliance notes that this is a national test case, as nearly four million children are in failing public schools throughout the United States”. –Thomas C. Reeves, Historian blogging at the History News Network