Supreme Court seems poised to require state-funded charter schools to include religious schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Oklahoma, like 45 other states, has charter schools that allow for more flexibility and innovation in education.
56% : If that's the case, she added, there will be "a line out the door" for religious schools to be incorporated into the public charter school program.
55% : But under both the federal charter school law and similar state laws, charter schools are public schools that are funded by the state, closely supervised by the state, and most importantly for Wednesday's case, by law the schools must be non-sectarian.
54% : Challenging that non-religious requirement Wednesday were two Catholic dioceses in Oklahoma that tried to establish a publicly funded Catholic school, St. Isidore of Seville, as a charter school.
54% : The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that would directly contradict the state and federal constitutional bans on state-sponsored religious indoctrination.
53% : What, he asked, would teachers be able to teach if religious schools were added to public charter schools?
52% : If he sides with the other conservatives, there very likely would be a five-justice majority for requiring charter school programs to include overtly religious schools.
49% : But he maintained that since public schools were first adopted in the mid-1800s, the state and federal constitutions have not allowed private religious schools to be directly funded by the government.
49% : Charter schools are, without exception, public schools, he said, noting that in New Orleans, for example, the city's only public schools are charter schools.
48% : Representing the Trump administration and the religious groups, Solicitor General John Sauer maintained that allowing religious charter schools to co-exist with non-religious schools does not violate the U.S. Constitution, because "the decision whether or not to go to the religious school ... lies in the hands of the parents.
47% : " Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson noted that the 1994 federal law creating the charter school program specifically says that charter schools have to be non-sectarian.
45% : " Lawyer Gregory Garre, representing Oklahoma, replied that that the state provides vouchers and tax benefits to parents who want to send their children to private religious schools.
43% : If he votes the other way, the tie vote would automatically uphold the lower court decision that barred religious schools from being public charter schools.

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