Press Releases
February 4, 2021
| Government of Nashville v. Tennessee Department of Education
Today, the Tennessee Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from the Court of Appeals on the constitutionality of Governor Bill Lee's Education Savings Account pilot program to provide low-income students in Nashville and Memphis with a $7,000 scholarship to attend the school of their choice....
January 27, 2021
A Chicago Teachers Union strike would be illegal — violating both the current collective bargaining agreement with Chicago Public Schools and Illinois law....
January 13, 2021
A parent of a student in one of Arizona’s largest school districts is placing teachers union and school leaders on notice if teachers repeat an illegal work stoppage that took place in December. As the Chandler Unified School District Board of Education meets again this evening to consider a plan to return to in-person education next week, this parent is demanding that the district and union recognize the previous “sick-out” by teachers was an illegal strike....
January 5, 2021
| Vitale v. Vermont
A group of Vermont parents are suing the state and local school districts over unequal access to education under the state’s 150-year-old Town Tuitioning system. The parents say the program violates the state constitution by allowing children residing in certain school districts to attend the school of their choice and denying the same right to others....
December 21, 2020
Parents of students in Virginia’s largest school district are working to ensure that teachers union leaders do not repeat an illegal work stoppage that took place in late October....
November 25, 2020
| Government of Nashville v. Tennessee Department of Education
Attorneys from the Liberty Justice Center are asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to overturn a decision to block a critical scholarship program for low-income students. Opponents of the Education Savings Account (ESA) Pilot Program have stalled its implementation and blocked scholarships for up to 5,000 students from low-income families in Nashville and Memphis....
November 23, 2020
Idaho’s largest teachers union has vowed not to shut down schools again a month after waging an illegal strike that forced 40,000 kids to stay home unexpectedly. The union’s promise comes after a group of parents sued the teachers union for illegally shutting down schools by calling into work sick en masse....
October 26, 2020
| Kelly v. North Carolina
Attorneys from the Liberty Justice Center are representing the North Carolina General Assembly in a legal fight to protect a scholarship program that provides educational opportunities for thousands of low-income students....
October 20, 2020
As the West Ada School District announced it would reopen on Wednesday, a group of parents filed a lawsuit arguing this week’s “sick out” was an illegal union strike, and that the teachers union cannot use the threat of another work stoppage to force the district to meet its demands....
October 13, 2020
Mark Janus, the lead plaintiff in the landmark 2018 Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision, submitted an amicus brief in Washington case....
September 18, 2020
Today’s action escalates the legal battle from the state trial court to the South Carolina Supreme Court. Palmetto Promise Institute and the Liberty Justice Center continue to fight to protect SAFE Grants and plan to consent to bringing the case before the High Court....
September 18, 2020
| Kelly v. North Carolina
A group of parents and two private schools in North Carolina are fighting to protect a critical scholarship program, the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which has opened the doors for thousands of low-income children in the state to attend private schools over the last five years....
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