Health & Fitness
DOJ picking on the wrong school system
By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON — The U.S. Department of Justice has no authority to order theDepartment of Public Instruction to force Wisconsin’s voucher schools to comply with the federal Americans With Disabilities Act, officials with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty say.
“DOJ misunderstands school choice in Wisconsin and ignores state and federal law, decades of court precedent, and even long standing federal policy,” Rick Esenberg, president of the libertarian leaning public interest law firm, said in a statement issued Wednesday.
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It is, he told Wisconsin Reporter later in the day, “just another federal power grab.”
The Department of Justice in May made a Tony Soprano-like threat to the DPI that unless the agency forced choice schools to meet ADA standards in the 2013-2014 school year, “the United States reserves its right to pursue enforcement through other means.”
