Can Public Money Flow to Catholic Charter School? the Supreme Court Will Decide

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "This is religious public education, fully and directly funded by taxpayers.
57% : A group of Oklahoma parents, faith leaders and a public education nonprofit that also sued to block the school argue that religious charter schools in their state would lead to a drop in funding for rural public schools.
56% : But the schools also are run by independent boards that are not part of local public school systems.
55% : Just under 4 million American schoolchildren, about 8%, are enrolled in charter schools.
52% : Those include that they receive state funding, must abide by antidiscrimination laws and must submit to oversight of curriculum and testing.
51% : "Charter schools no doubt offer important educational innovations, but they bear all the classic indicia of public schools," lawyers for Drummond wrote in a Supreme Court filing.
51% : "Charter schools are called public schools, but they're totally different entities," said Nicole Garnett, a University of Notre Dame law professor who is a leading proponent of publicly funded religious charter schools.
50% : The case comes to the court amid efforts, mainly in conservative-led states, to insert religion into public schools.
47% : "I see it very clearly, that there's been a war on Christianity and our schools have been at the epicenter of that," said Walters, a former high school history teacher elected in 2022 on a platform of fighting "woke ideology" in public schools and banning certain books from school libraries.
46% : Opponents warn it would blur the separation between church and state, sap money from public schools and possibly upend the rules governing charter schools in almost every state.
43% : He has been an unabashed critic of the separation of church and state and sought to infuse more religion into public schools.
42% : " The state board and the school, backed by an array of Republican-led states and religious and conservative groups, argue that the court decision violates a different part of the First Amendment that protects religious freedom.

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