Press Releases

ACLU of Wisconsin Criticizes DPI Decision That Ignores Pervasive Discrimination in Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District

The ACLU of Wisconsin criticized DPI's decision allowing the Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District to continue to ignore the discriminatory environment in its schools.
Issue Areas: Education Equity

Wisconsin Judge Dismisses Case Aiming to Out Transgender and Nonbinary Students Without Their Consent

We successfully stopped a challenge to the Madison Metropolitan School District policy to protect students’ ability to use different names or pronouns at school.

ACLU of Wisconsin Praises DPI Decision In Discrimination Case Involving Burlington Area School District Student Athletes

Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction acknowledged BASD’s failure to address the racism that opposing football team members faced during a Burlington High School football game last fall.

ACLU of Wisconsin Commends Court Decision Requiring DPI and Cedarburg School District To Include Complainant in Settlement Negotiations

Judge ruled that the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and Cedarburg School District were wrong to attempt to settle a racial harassment case without the input of the impacted family.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin Allows School Policy Protecting Privacy of Transgender and Nonbinary Students to Remain in Effect

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin allowed a school policy, which protects the right of students to use different names or pronouns at school without being forcibly outed by school faculty, to stay in effect while the case goes forward in the lower courts. 

Monitor Reports Deteriorating Conditions at Lincoln Hills Youth Prison

Juvenile Law Center, ACLU of Wisconsin Sound Alarms Over Use of Solitary Confinement, Worsening Conditions

ACLU of Wisconsin Commends Court Decision For Cedarburg School District To Address Racial Harassment at Its Schools

The ACLU of Wisconsin applauded a judge’s ruling in favor of a  Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction directive requiring the Cedarburg School District to seriously address racial harassment at its schools, affirming DPI’s verdict last summer that Cedarburg had failed to investigate a student’s
Issue Areas: Education Equity

ACLU of Wisconsin Files Complaint Alleging Pervasive Discrimination In Oshkosh Area School District

The ACLU of Wisconsin filed a civil rights complaint this week seeking an investigation into the Oshkosh Area School District.
Issue Areas: Education Equity

ACLU of Wisconsin Requests Records Regarding Ban on Alleged Controversial and Political Signs in Waukesha School District

We filed an open records request with the School District of Waukesha to find out whether its ban on political and controversial signage and symbols is in violation of the Constitution and other civil rights protections.