The Wyoming Supreme Court on Tuesday denied the state’s request to overrule a lower court and let a new school-choice scholarship program go into effect.

Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Lynne Boomgaarden in a Tuesday order noted that the state’s executive branch asked the high court to reverse an earlier order by Laramie County District Court Judge Peter Froelicher that had blocked the Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act from going into effect.

“After a careful review” of the state’s request, a public-school advocacy coalition’s counter argument and the case file, wrote Boomgaarden in the Tuesday order, “this Court finds the motion to stay should be denied.”

Froelicher had concluded in July that the scholarship program likely violates the Wyoming Constitution’s promise of an equitabl

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