Charter Day’s Supreme Court petition argues that the 4th Circuit majority disregarded Supreme Court precedent from 1982’s Rendell-Baker v.Kohn, opens new tab, which held that a private school ...

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’s charter schools bear all of the hallmarks of a public school identified by this Court and more,” Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, a Republican, told the U.S. Supreme ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted review in a potentially landmark case about whether a state may, or even must, include a religious school in its public charter school funding program.

WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school, a major loss for those advocating a greater role for religion in public life ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington on April 1, 2025. The court on April 30 will take up a much-debated case about whether a state must allow a religious charter school.

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, D.C. on December 7, 2020. On December 10, the Supreme Court ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act allows individuals to seek money damages ...

Several organizations have voiced concerns about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a case regarding an Oklahoman ...

A proposed Christian charter school is taking its case to the U.S. Supreme Court, hopeful that a conservative supermajority will offer a sympathetic ear to the notion that schools that practice ...