Aaron Saiger

The Wyoming Supreme Court has paved the way for families to use public funds for private schools. The court last month ended an injunction against a 2025 state law that requires the state to deposit money from its general fund into education savings accounts that can be used by individual families to pay for private school tuition and other educational services.

You’re reading State Court Report’s biweekly newsletter. Subscribe to receive it in your inbox. The Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state’s charter school law last month in a major blow to school choice proponents. While the ruling itself relied on the Kentucky Constitution’s unusually strong safeguards against the diversion of public school funding, it’s also part of a wave of recent cases related to school choice and the meaning of public education. In Commonwealth v.

Courts across the country are considering whether school-choice programs violate state constitutions. School choice is taking off. Over the past several years, states have adopted programs that empower parents to direct state funds to pay their children’s private-school tuition and similar costs. Several state courts are now hearing challenges to the constitutionality of these programs. The suits allege that state constitutions restrict state funding of education to public schools alone.