Here is an article from the Plains-Sentinel.
And here is a money quotation:
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) is representing two Lancaster County families in a civil rights suit against multiple state and local officials alleging the state education system abridges private and homeschool parents’ free speech.
The plaintiffs, Justin Jacobsen and Timothy & Joanna Menter, argue that they have suffered civil rights violations and financial complications as a result of choosing private and homeschool education for their previously public-schooled children.
Co-defendants include the City of Lincoln, Lincoln Public Schools, and state officials, among others.
The three charges in the lawsuit assert that Nebraska’s education system imposes an unconstitutional condition on parents and abridges their federal and state rights of free speech by mandating education while simultaneously pressuring parents to accept government viewpoints in the absence of any compelling state interest.
The plaintiffs hold that education – from teaching style to curricula to incentivized behavior – is speech. Nebraska mandates educational speech by holding parents responsible for their children’s education under threat of criminal penalty. However, Nebraska parents may only educate their children free of cost if they waive their right to free educational speech by enrolling their children in government schools.
And here is my Case Western law review article on the constitutional right to School Choice under the First Amendment:
