1.   And voucher opponents continue to maintain that the use of vouchers can only lead to the destruction of the public school system.

2.   Ask Samantha Smoot about the chances of a school voucher pilot program getting through the Legislature this session, and the staunch voucher opponent breaks into a broad grin.

3.   Both the lawsuit and the injunction request were filed by a coalition of voucher opponents led by the Ohio Federation of Teachers and the American Civil Liberties Union.

4.   All of those factors have voucher opponents smiling and voucher proponents scurrying for additional support.

5.   But voucher opponents and voucher supporters disagree about what to do to improve the failing system.

6.   But voucher opponents said that their courtroom setback did not mean they would lose the public opinion war.

7.   But voucher opponents said the ruling will drain resources away from public schools and hurt the children who choose to stay in them.

8.   Two years ago, the Texas Freedom Network, which Smoot now heads, and other voucher opponents had little to smile about.

9.   Voucher opponents have long complained that vouchers are a plot to privatize education.

10.   Voucher opponents had seized on such flaws to claim the program did not work.