WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether the Catholic Church in Oklahoma can run the nation’s first religious charter school, a potentially major expansion of the use ...

Supreme Court seems open to religious charter schools The case is from Oklahoma, which like 45 other states, has laws that say charter schools must be public schools funded by the state, closely ...

Oklahoma charter schools, none of them religious, serve about 7.2 percent of the state’s public school pupils. They are operated by private entities. In 2022, the Supreme Court held that Maine ...

While free to all students, St. Isidore argued that charter schools aren’t public schools because private contractors create and run them. Students also aren’t assigned to charter schools like they ...

Third, these constitutional issues remain to be decided another day. Because the Supreme Court did not approve, much less require, discrimination based on religion in charter school programs, the ...

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court had barred a proposed Catholic charter school, St. Isidore, reasoning that it qualified as a state actor. St. Isidore argued it was more akin to a private contractor ...

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