Supreme Court to decide fate of nation's first religious charter school

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In recent years, the conservative-majority Supreme Court has been increasingly friendly toward public funding of religious initiatives.
53% : The justices will grapple with the fundamental nature of charter schools: In what ways are they -- or are they not -- equivalent to public institutions? Charter schools and public schools are similar in that they are tuition-free, anyone may join and they are funded with taxpayer dollars.
52% : But all these programs were already available to other private institutions, just not religious ones, while St. Isidore is looking for public funds typically reserved only for public schools.
49% : The key difference is charter schools are privately operated, with most states, including Oklahoma, requiring they are run in a nonsectarian way.
47% : The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could greenlight the first openly religious charter school funded by taxpayers, with sweeping implications for both private and public schools moving forward.
47% : Our children's ability to learn, our children's equality, democracy -- because public schools are teaching our children how to coexist in peace across our differences in a pluralistic society, right?
46% : In 2020, the high court said Montana had to allow a tax-credit program for private school scholarships to also go toward religious private schools.
45% : "The government should not be creating public schools that indoctrinate students in any religion, even my own; doing so violates our religious freedom.
44% : And in 2022, the Supreme Court ruled Maine had to allow a program that allowed public funds to pay for private school tuition to also go to religious private schools.
44% : The fight comes as laws have popped up around the country to insert more Christianity in public schools.
42% : Children should not be made to feel unwelcome in public schools because of their beliefs.

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