Issue
Educational Freedom
Helping Students Thrive
Parents should be free to choose the education they believe will best meet their children’s needs. With educational freedom, each child has the best opportunity to pursue his or her highest potential to flourish and contribute to the world.
That is why the Liberty Justice Center’s attorneys defend school choice programs that give parents that freedom—and why the Liberty Justice Center fights for the rights of families that choose innovative non-traditional educational models such as microschooling.
The Liberty Justice Center also stands up for families with children in government schools, defending students’ right to speak freely and be free from arbitrary discrimination, and parents’ right to know and speak out about what goes on at their children’s schools.
6 Educational Rights Parents Should Know
Our Cases Fighting For Educational Freedom
Our Fight in the News
Federal Investigation Opens Into Illinois Schools Over Transgender in Girls’ Locker Room
(The Washington Times)—Illinois education authorities were hit with a federal probe over a mother’s report that her middle-school daughter and other girls were required to change clothes in the same locker room as a biological male who identifies as female. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened investigations...
U.S. Department Of Education Launches Title IX Investigation Into Illinois, Chicago Public Schools
(Tampa Free Press)—The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened investigations into the Illinois Department of Education, Chicago Public Schools District 299, and Deerfield Public Schools District 109 following complaints of alleged Title IX violations. The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) and the Defense of Freedom Institute...
OCR Launches Investigations into Illinois DOE, the Chicago Public School District 299, and Deerfield Public Schools District 109 Over Reported Title IX Violations
Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened investigations into the Illinois Department of Education, the Chicago Public Schools District 299, and the Deerfield Public Schools District 109 in Illinois amid allegations that these entities violated Title IX by requiring girls in the school to share...
Opinion: Trump’s Educational Freedom Order Extends School Choice Week for Four More Years
(The Federalist)—President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing federal agencies to find ways to prioritize school choice programs — a sharp reversal from the previous administration’s hostile opposition to reform. As part of a growing trend, there are already around a dozen states operating universal school choice programs...