How Parents Beat the Left on School Choice in Wisconsin

Despite having a new liberal majority, the Wisconsin Supreme Court refused this month to hear a challenge to the state’s school-choice programs. The lawsuit, supported by the Minocqua Brewing Co.’s progressive super PAC, would have deprived more than 60,000 students of funding. The episode carries a lesson for advocates of education freedom.

The lawsuit challenged Wisconsin’s taxpayer-funded voucher programs. While teachers unions hailed it, Democratic politicians refused to endorse it. Gov. Tony Evers’s administration filed a brief asking the court to reject the case. The Legislature’s Democratic leaders kept silent. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, running for re-election in 2024, appears not to have said a word.