MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to hear a lawsuit brought by Democrats seeking to end the state’s taxpayer-funded private school voucher program.
The lawsuit could be refiled in county circuit court, as both Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration and Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had argued. The Supreme Court rejected it without comment in an unsigned, unanimous order.
Democrats who brought the lawsuit asked the state Supreme Court to take the case directly, which would have resulted in a much faster final ruling than having the case start in lower courts.
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Title not entirely accurate. The Supreme Court rejected the “original action petition” challenge to school choice. All it means is that they declined to let the case skip all the lower courts. There’s strategery at play here, and the “powers that be” have determined this isn’t the right time (or that the petitioner’s filing was just that awfully written).
I fully expect this to be attempted again, because the Left has this program in their crosshairs. I thought, though, the attack vector would be on the grounds of inclusivity, that private schools are discriminatory against LBGTQIAXYZLGBFJB students. When I talked with a representative from WILL, she said they hadn’t thought of preparing arguments against that one. The “public funding” challenge was a head-scratcher.
Anyway, taking down school choice was a campaign promise; the Left will try to cash in.
Yup. They’ll just have to start at the beginning.
By the way, ARE the private schools discriminating against LBGTQIAXYZLGBFJBSJ students? Way back in the ’60’s, I was a student at a Jesuit high school and there were more than a few homosexuals enrolled there. Of course, they didn’t mince their way into the building, nor act out in class or the cafeteria……
There have been a couple of local media “sting operations” aimed at some private choice schools that disciplined/suspended/expelled students for opening participating in LGBTQIA relationships. They were religious schools, and had a code of conduct that prohibited such behavior.
WILL has commented on these issues, saying that the schools can’t (and don’t) discriminate during the enrollment process, but can enforce their code of conduct once a student is enrolled. In other words, students who wish to enroll in a choice school know up front what behavior is and isn’t allowed at the school, and make their decision by enrolling that they will abide by it (or face the stated consequences).
Again, the case shouldn’t hold water. But the Left has a way of using these “equality” issues to their advantage, despite facts, law, and common sense.
choice schools that disciplined/suspended/expelled students for opening participating in LGBTQIA relationships. They were religious schools, and had a code of conduct that prohibited such behavior.
Not different in substance from the cases where same-sex “married” faculty were FIRED from Catholic schools (Indiana), or faculty which became preggers while not married (Wisconsin). Those were adjudicated in favor of the schools, and quickly.