Oklahoma's Catholic Charter School Battle Heads to the Supreme Court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Like peddlers of anti-Catholic bigotry in the late-19th century, Drummond has turned to fear-mongering and confusing the issues at hand in order to garner support.
59% : He points to a number of attributes of charter schools and their relationship with the state's chartering board to argue that charter schools are public schools.
57% : " According to Garnett, for the sort of "educational pluralism" that states such as Oklahoma are promoting through their system of charter schools to pass constitutional muster, "religious pluralism" must also be respected.
47% : She writes in the Wall Street Journal that "Much of the commentary about the case exaggerates its scope, claiming that a ruling in St. Isidore's favor would open the doors to religion in public schools.
47% : " Just as allowing public funds for charter schools like St. Isidore's that are privately run and freely chosen isn't establishing religion, denying them charter status because of their religious character interferes with the free exercise of religion.
44% : Drummond points to a provision in the state constitution that prohibits public money from supporting any "sectarian institution."
41% : He claims that denying St. Isidore's charter status was proper in order to avoid the public funding of "the teachings of Sharia Law or even Satanism.

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