St. Isidore would be, like the other charter schools that some 50,000 Oklahoma students currently attend, a taxpayer-financed public school. Or so the Oklahoma Supreme Court held last June when it ...

we believe states looking to clear up charter schools’ ambiguous state actor status under the Constitution can amend their laws. As we explain in a recent legal article, a 1995 Supreme Court ...

He has argued that the state supreme court correctly determined that charter schools in Oklahoma are public schools that must provide a “strictly secular” education. Drummond, who represents ...

This question has divided educators for decades, ever since charter schools were developed as a strategy to improve public education. And for the Supreme Court in the Oklahoma case, its answer makes ...

A Catholic charter school is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to approve the nation ... through privately designed and operated charter schools … but Oklahoma denies that opportunity ...

The bishops argued that charter schools “are not operating state-run schools” and are thus excluded from the state supreme court’s “narrowly defined” concept of what constitutes a state ...

The United States Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for April 30 in a case concerning the nation's first publicly funded religious charter schools. Last summer, Oklahoma's highest court ruled ...