The Statewide Charter School Board and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ...

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has long argued that public money should not fund the operations of a ...

The case centered on whether a charter school, funded with public money, can operate as a religious institution. What would have been the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school will ...

A proposal to open a religious charter school in Oklahoma is at the center of a pivotal case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The nation's highest court will hear arguments in the case on April 30 ...

Oklahoma Charter School Opponents Employ Fearmongering at the Supreme Court View of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2024. (Nathan Howard/Reuters) ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court deadlocks 4-4, halting Oklahoma’s attempt to fund a Catholic charter school with public money.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to issue a ruling in a contentious case involving what was proposed to be the nation’s first religious charter school, leaving untouched a lower court ...

April 30, 2025 The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the case, which could determine the future of publicly funded religious charter schools in the United States. May 22, 2025 ...

The court was deadlocked 4-4, which meant a state Supreme Court ruling that declared the school violated the constitutional separation of church and state remained in place.

However, he argued, not allowing the school to receive public money like Oklahoma’s 32 other charter schools would amount to religious discrimination that would violate the U.S. Constitution.