In Case the Choice World 'Dreaded,' Justices Appear Open to Religious Charters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Related Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson drew a line between charter schools and the previous cases in which religious groups wanted an equal chance to participate in a state-run program.
52% : "Have you thought about that boomerang effect for charter schools?" he asked.
52% : She notes that charter schools, for example, received paycheck protection program loans during the pandemic, but public schools didn't.
47% : "These are state-run institutions," said Justice Elena Kagan, one of three liberals on the court.
44% : Poking both sides in a dispute with potentially huge ramifications for education, Chief Justice John Roberts could cast the deciding vote on whether charter schools funded with public dollars can be free to practice religion.
44% : But he warns that allowing explicit religious teaching in charter schools would "dangerously entangle the state with religion.
43% : In Virginia, for example, school districts authorize and have tighter control over charter schools, which makes them more like state actors, said Carol Corbet Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education and a frequent critic of charter schools.

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