Madison—The Wisconsin Homeschooling Parents Association (WHPA), a support and advocacy group for education freedom in the state, has received the 2026 Ed Thompson Award from the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin.
The award, named for the 2002 Libertarian Party governor candidate and former Party chair, Ed Thompson, goes annually to a private person or public organization or business that promotes individual freedom, and a larger liberty for all, within Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Homeschooling Parents Association, a non-political and non-religious all-volunteer organization, provides a resource base and mutual help network of parents who teach their children outside of the usual government-mandated public school systems.
“Wisconsin Homeschooling Parents Association is a state-wide, inclusive, non-partisan, grassroots organization dedicated to protecting the right and freedom of parents to provide an education to their children according to their own principles and beliefs,” the WHPA states on their website.
The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin (LPWI) delivers the award every spring. The decision on this year’s winner reflects the Party’s principles supporting alternative answers and methods opposed to the ethical and moral corruption of government-as-usual.
The LPWI Platform plank on education specifically says, “Since private education is today outperforming public education at half the cost, we call for the phase out of all state and federal involvement in education. We therefore endorse “School Choice”.” For more info on this platform or the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, please visit www.lpwi.org .
