Congratulations to Clint Bolick!

Congratulations, Clint! Well deserved for years and years of very hard work for America's children. Keep up the good work -- don't think you can just win this cash prize and split....go to the Bahamas or something. The battle is never over, my friend, is it? Blessings and good wishes to you, Clint --

Here's the press release on the award:

ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL CHOICE PRESIDENT CLINT BOLICK
WINS BRADLEY PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT

PHOENIX—The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation today announced that Clint Bolick, president and general counsel of the Phoenix-based Alliance for School choice, will receive one of the four Bradley Prizes to honor outstanding achievement, to be awarded at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on May 25.

“The Bradley Foundation is honoring Mr. Bolick for his tireless fight for school choice and justice in education,” said Michael W. Grebe, president and chief executive officer of the Bradley Foundation. “His legal acumen and his commitment to equality have brought about tremendous change in education.”

The Bradley Prizes Program was created in 2003 to formally recognize individuals of extraordinary intellectual talent and dedication who have made contributions of excellence in areas consistent with the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation’s philanthropic priorities. Up to four prizes of $250,000 each are awarded annually to innovative thinkers and practitioners whose achievements strengthen the legacy of the Bradley brothers and the ideas to which they were committed.

“I am enormously honored to receive this award from the Bradley Foundation, which has done so much to advance freedom throughout the world,” Bolick declared.

Before joining the Alliance in 2004, Bolick co-founded and served as vice president and litigation director of the Institute for Justice, where he led the effort to defend the constitutionality of school choice programs, culminating in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court victory in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, upholding the Cleveland program in 2002.

Bolick also serves as senior research fellow with the Hoover Institution and the Goldwater Institute.