Supporters of charter schools and church-state separation describe a ‘tumultuous moment’ as the debate heads for April oral arguments.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider reviving an effort to create the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. In what is set to become a major case implicating religious rights,
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a bid by Oklahoma officials to approve the nation's first publicly-funded religious charter school.
The state’s highest court said that the religious charter school would be a “state actor” and not a private entity contracting with the state. State funding of the school would violate the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment prohibition on government establishment of religion, the court said.
The court will address a lower court decision deeming the school's funding to be unconstitutional. Notably, a majority of the justices profess the Roman Catholic faith. Associate Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Sonia Sotomayor, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts, are all Catholic.
The Supreme Court will weigh the fate of an Oklahoma religious charter school that has blurred the lines between church and state, justices announced Friday in an unsigned order distributed days after President Donald Trump was sworn into office.
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Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, a Republican who announced a bid for governor in 2026, initiated the lawsuit against the Catholic charter school, warning that taxpayer-funded religious charter schools could lead to funding for other religious indoctrination, including “radical Islam or even the Church of Satan.”