Supreme Court appears inclined to allow 1st taxpayer-funded religious charter school

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : A series of recent Supreme Court decisions has endorsed the idea that taxpayer-funded public benefit programs, from school vouchers to state-run scholarships, must be equally available, even if a person or organization has a religious affiliation.
51% : The state's Republican attorney general argues that charter schools are public schools - open to all and subject to close supervision - and, as such, operate as extensions of state government subject to principles of separation of church and state.
48% : "These are state-run institutions," Kagan said.
43% : " Conservatives suggested they had a fundamentally different view of charter schools -- as contractors for a public service rather than an arm of the government.
43% : "I can imagine some states might respond to a decision in your favor by imposing more requirements on charter schools," Gorsuch said to attorney James Campbell representing the plaintiffs.
39% : The court's three liberal members were united in the view that charter schools are quintessentially public institutions that cannot advance a specific ideology using taxpayer funds.
37% : The justices heard arguments in a landmark dispute from Oklahoma, where the state Supreme Court last year blocked the Catholic Church from receiving a charter school contract on grounds that it violated state and federal constitutional bans on government-sponsored sectarian education.

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