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 ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court's conservatives argued religious institutions can’t be treated as second-class and railed against discrimination. Concerns about opening the door to public ...

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 ...

Forty-seven states plus the District of Columbia have charter school laws, with schools operating in 44 states and D.C. The Supreme Court case pits the proposed St. Isidore of Seville Catholic ...

The school and the charter school board came to the Supreme Court in October, asking the justices to weigh in. The issue of public funding for private schools is one with which the justices are very ...

It was less categorical about teachers, saying that all Oklahoma charter schools are free to adopt their own personnel policies. The state’s Supreme Court ruled against the school, with the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...