Wisconsin City Defies Supreme Court Order To Force All Schools Closed Until Jan. 15
MADISON, Wis. — They’re “drunk with power,” Jim Bender said of the leftist Racine city leaders who are defying a Wisconsin Supreme Court restraining order on school closures. Bender, the president of School Choice Wisconsin, told Empower Wisconsin he is “stunned they were so brazen against a clear order from the Supreme Court, but I guess they don’t think they’ll pay a legal or political price.”
School Choice Wisconsin joined parents with school-aged children and private schools in suing the city of Racine and its overreaching health administrator, Dottie-Kay Bowersox. Last month, Bowersox issued a public health order mandating that all schools, public and private, in the Racine Unified School District close and move to virtual learning on Nov. 27, citing the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, attorneys for the plaintiffs, asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take up the lawsuit and issue an injunction against the local health department’s order. On Nov. 25, the court agreed and issued a restraining order preventing the city from closing the schools.
The same day, Bowersox sent an email to school administrators in Racine, saying the court’s ruling “does not alter the status” of the city’s Safer Racine ordinance, which only applies to the city. “Within this ordinance, school buildings will remain closed from November 27, 2020 through January 15, 2021,” Bowersox wrote
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