Supreme Court's conservatives lean toward allowing country's first religious public charter school
- On April 30, 2025, the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether to allow Oklahoma's first taxpayer-funded religious online charter school, St. Isidore of Seville.
- The case arises from the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that the school's public funding violates the First Amendment by entangling church and state.
- St. Isidore planned to enroll 200 K-12 students and aims to evangelize Catholic faith, supported by conservative justices and state leaders, with one justice undecided.
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh said they seek only equal treatment, not special favor, while lawyer Greg Garre warned the ruling will dramatically affect charter schools nationwide.
- If Chief Justice Roberts sides with conservatives, the school will open nationwide implications; a tie would uphold the state ruling and leave the issue unresolved nationally.
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Divided Court Hears Oklahoma Religious Charter School Case - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma was in the national spotlight Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case over the state’s desire to create the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. The justices seemed split along predictable ideological lines, with Republican-appointed justices sympathetic to the school and Democratic-appointed ones skeptical. With Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s recusal in the case, a single conservative justice…
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