The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled 6-2 last year that charter schools are public schools and state law requires public education to be secular. The court also said a Catholic charter school would ...

But at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the questions posed by the conservative justices seemed to lean heavily in favor of allowing religious schools to become publicly funded charter schools.

WASHINGTON — Oklahoma will not be able to launch the nation's first religious public charter school after the Supreme Court deadlocked ... of whether religious schools must be able to ...

On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court will consider whether St ... A ruling against St. Isidore would be a significant blow to charter schools of all stripes, particularly ...

There are two distinct legal questions before the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments this week in a major case over a religious charter school in Oklahoma. Both are infused with deep ...

The bid to create the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school fell flat ... been trying to break open in public schools at the Supreme Court for years. At the crux of the dispute ...

“Today’s decision from the Supreme Court leaves the lower Court’s ruling in place and sends an important message: public charter schools are just that, public,” Starlee Coleman, president ...

And every one of the nation’s 8,000 charter schools is nonsectarian, because state and federal law has required it. That appeared likely to change after Supreme Court arguments Wednesday ...

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday in St. Isidore v. Drummond, its first-ever case about charter schools. I’ve seen many headlines claiming that the justices are about to take a ...

“The implications of this case reach far beyond any individual school, and we urge the Supreme Court to follow the law and preserve charter schools as a public school option.” The Alliance ...

“You’re doing fine, Oklahoma,” proclaimed the 1943 Broadway musical. Soon, the Supreme Court might disagree. On Wednesday, it will hear oral arguments about an Oklahoma dispute involving the ...

who has been a leading advocate for religious charter schools. The two met when they were law clerks at the Supreme Court in 1998. Barrett was a clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia while Garnett ...