Supreme Court to decide if Oklahoma Catholic school can be publicly funded - UPI.com

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58% : Oral arguments will be heard Wednesday if the school can become the first religious charter school in the United States, or if the First Amendment, which separates church and state, means only nonsectarian schools can qualify as charter schools that are publicly funded.
57% : The federal government currently defines charter schools as "public schools of choice that are created in accordance with state laws and are publicly funded and tuition-free.
54% : The Supreme Court has previously ruled that taxpayer-funded public benefit programs, such as school vouchers and state-run scholarships, are equally available, even if a person or organization has a religious affiliation.
51% : St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, created by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa in 2023, said state funding for charter schools is generally made available to qualified organizations and that the state cannot discriminate based on religion.
21% : Supreme Court to decide Oklahoma's public-school teachers now required to teach from Bible Oklahoma Supreme Court says public funding for religious school unconstitutional Lawsuits target first religious public charter school in U.S. Oklahoma approves first religious public charter school in United States "Oklahoma may exclude religious charter schools because six features, 'free, open to all, funded by the State, subject to state control, nondiscriminatory, and nonsectarian' purportedly establish charter schools as 'public schools' and thus governmental actors for federal constitutional purposes," Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond argued.

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