Partnership for Educational Choice to Intervene in Legal Challenge to Wyoming’s Education Savings Account Program

Ann Marie Miller

June 16, 2025
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Press Release: For Immediate Release
June 16, 2025

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Partnership for Educational Choice to Intervene in Legal Challenge to Wyoming’s Education Savings Account Program

Today, the Partnership for Educational Choice —a joint project of the Institute for Justice (IJ) and EdChoice—announced its intention to intervene in a lawsuit filed Friday by the Wyoming Education Association (WEA), challenging the constitutionality of the state’s newly expanded Education Savings Account (ESA) program.

In March, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed the Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act into law, expanding the state’s small education savings account (ESA) program enacted by the legislature last year.

“Parents in Wyoming deserve the freedom to choose the best educational options for their children, especially when the public system doesn’t meet every child’s needs,” said Thomas M. Fisher, Executive Vice President and Director of Litigation at EdChoice Legal Advocates. “We will be moving swiftly with our partners at the Institute for Justice to defend the rights of families across the state.”

The Partnership for Educational Choice, which launched in late 2023, is a project of IJ and EdChoice. For more than three decades, IJ has been the nation’s leading law firm defending educational choice programs and expanding educational access and opportunity. Since its founding in 1991, it has successfully represented parents in educational choice lawsuits in numerous state supreme courts, intermediate courts of appeal, and trial courts, as well as four times at the U.S. Supreme Court (Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, Carson v. Makin).

During that time, EdChoice has been the premier organization providing critical research and educational information to stakeholders working to expand educational choice throughout the country. In late 2023, it added a litigation arm, EdChoice Legal Advocates, to its portfolio.

EdChoice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. Its mission is to advance educational freedom and choice for all as a pathway to successful lives and a stronger society. EdChoice is committed to understanding and pursuing a K–12 education ecosystem that empowers every family to choose the learning environment that fits their children’s needs best. Learn more at edchoice.org.

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Ann Marie Miller

Communications and Content Associate

As EdChoice’s Communications and Content Associate, Ann Marie leads project management, content creation and supports all Communications projects. She comes to EdChoice with a background in storytelling, writing and social media marketing.

Prior to this role, Ann Marie served as a storyteller for the Illinois Policy Institute illustrating the intersection of public policy and people’s lives, business and choices. She graduated from George Mason University with a master’s degree in economics and earned a interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree in Economics, Spanish and Japanese from Western Carolina University.

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