Issue
Educational Freedom
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.
Our Cases Fighting For Educational Freedom
Our Fight in the News
(The Wall Street Journal)—Under a 1973 law, public employees in Massachusetts have no right to strike. Yet there have been six local teacher strikes in the state since 2022. Why do they keep getting away with it? Because politicians refuse to hold them accountable and parents don’t feel like they...
(American Family News)—The Oklahoma Supreme Court is being urged to reject a petition against the nation’s first-ever religious charter school. In Drummond v. Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board, Liberty Justice Center and the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty have jointly filed an amicus brief with the Oklahoma Supreme Court...
(The Center Square)—A lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond opposing a virtual religious charter school discriminates against minority religions, according to an amicus brief filed with the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Drummond sued the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board and its members after a charter was granted to...
(The Daily Signal)—Liberal activist Kirk Bangstad’s Minocqua Brewing Co. SuperPAC on Oct. 12 filed a petition with the Wisconsin Supreme Court that sought to dismantle the state’s popular school choice programs and shutter the state’s independent charter schools. Bangstad hired international law firm Perkins Coie LLP—armed with more than $1 billion in revenue and 1,120...