WILL sued State Superintendent of Public Instruction Carolyn Stanford Taylor and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) for their unfair, illegal treatment of private schools in Wisconsin’s choice programs. DPI denied private choice schools the opportunity to fully utilize online, virtual learning as part of classroom instruction.
The Montana Supreme Court struck down a popular scholarship tax credit program for violating its state constitution’s prohibition on providing any public funds, directly or indirectly, to religious institutions (private schools in this case). We filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case and rule that such “Blaine Amendments” in state constitutions are unconstitutional because they discrimination against religion.
Case Name: School Choice Wisconsin v. Carolyn Stanford Taylor
Type of Case: Good Government; School Choice
Court: Jefferson County Circuit Court
Case Number: 19-CV-519
Filed On: November 6, 2019
Current Status: Summary judgment motion filed, awaiting response from the stateState law is clear: ...
WILL sued the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) on behalf of a West Allis family, Heritage Christian Schools, and School Choice Wisconsin Action (SCWA), after the department adopted an illegal policy to block a family from enrolling in the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program (WPCP) – the statewide voucher program.
Case Names: Michigan v. DeVos, Washington v. DeVos, NAACP v. DeVos
Type of Case: CARES Act relief for private schools
Court: Federal court
Case Number:
Filed On: June 29, 2020
Current Status: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed an amicus brief in Michigan v. DeVos, a ...
Case Name: Village of Mattoon v. Antigo School District
Type of Case: Education
Court: Shawano County Circuit Court
Case Number: 2019-CV-10
Filed On: January 21, 2019
Current Status: Intervention granted; Motions on the merits pending
The Mattoon Elementary School in the Antigo School ...
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