Old walls between church and state are falling. Will bans on religious charter schools go next?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "This Court has held that the First Amendment bars religious prayer and instruction in public schools.
53% : As the Drummond brief notes, a Supreme Court ruling in favor of St. Isidore and the Oklahoma Charter School Board could reshape public education nationwide.
53% : All six justices who were in the majority in the 2022 ruling on education funding in Maine are still on the court, but only five will take part in the case.
48% : The brief argues that religious private schools in Oklahoma can and should access various public benefits, but they shouldn't be allowed to operate as charter schools, which are treated as public schools in Oklahoma and across much of the country.
47% : The education landscape is rapidly changing as families and state lawmakers respond to recent Supreme Court rulings that cleared the way for private religious schools to receive more public money.
43% : "A ruling for petitioners would eliminate the buffer this Court has long enforced between religious instruction and public schools -- including in areas where charter schools are the only or default public-school option," the brief says.

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