A circuit court judge in Alabama ruled that a law to give public dollars to private schools is unconstitutional.
“A program that pro-public education activists have called a throwback to the 1950s–a time when Alabama tried avoiding integration by directing public school funds to private schools–has been ruled unconstitutional by a Montgomery County circuit court judge.
“The Alabama Accountability Act of 2013 targeted students attending public schools that the state deemed “failing.” Instead of providing real solutions to help all students gain access to a quality public education, the Accountability Act starved public schools of critical funding.
“The law created a tax-credit program that used public dollars to reimburse the cost of tuition to those parents who pulled their children out of public schools and enrolled them in private or religious schools. Tax credits were also given to companies and individuals who gave money to certain organizations to fund scholarships for low-income students to attend private schools.
The program cost taxpayers $40 million during the 2013-14 fiscal year, yet, studies show that voucher and tuition tax-credit schemes don’t result in a better education for students.”
The law was challenged by the Alabama Education Association. It is sure to be appealed.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
My recent experiences living in the heart of the South (having grown up on the West coast) were very eye-opening. We bought a house in the part of town with the “best” public schools. In a city that was 65% African-American, our local public schools were 58% African-American. There were schools that were very close to 100%. During the 4 years that we lived there, all the private schools (and there were many, especially considering that this was not that big a city) were celebrating their 50th anniversaries. Their ethnicities were reported as nearly all at 97% white or higher. People in our neighborhood chose to pay city and county taxes (about 1/2 mile down the road and you only had to pay city taxes) in order to live in this better part of town, and yet they still sent their kids to private schools. I kept hearing story after story from parents who had gone out of the area to go to college, only to quit and return to nearby colleges because they were not used to being around so many (other) people. I now live in the NE, and although we have run into diversity issues here as well, it is NOTHING like what we saw there. I KNOW there would be a lot of parents who would have loved to take advantage of school choice monies.