Part church-versus-state conflict, part jurisdictional turf war, this Sooner State charter school fracas is one of the knottiest cases the high court has had to resolve in some time.

The Supreme Court will hear a case on whether the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.

Supporters of charter schools and church-state separation describe a ‘tumultuous moment’ as the debate heads for April oral arguments.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider reviving an effort to create the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. In what is set to become a major case implicating religious rights,

SCOTUS will decide whether the nation’s first-ever religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. #oklaed

The justices will review an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that said the proposal violated both the state and federal constitutions.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett is not taking part in the case, but did not explain why. Last June, Oklahoma’s top court held by a 7-1 vote that a taxpayer-funded religious charter school would ...

The justices said they will hear an appeal over the proposed St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma.

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added three more cases – two of which will be argued together – to its docket for the 2024-25 term. In a brief unsigned order, the justices agreed to review a rul

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, a Republican who announced a bid for governor in 2026, initiated the lawsuit against the Catholic charter school, warning that taxpayer-funded religious charter schools could lead to funding for other religious indoctrination, including “radical Islam or even the Church of Satan.”

The state’s highest court said that the religious charter school would be a “state actor” and not a private entity contracting with the state. State funding of the school would violate the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment prohibition on government establishment of religion, the court said.

The U.S. Supreme Curt will consider allowing the nation's first publicly-funded religious charter school to open in Oklahoma.The case, St. Isidore of Seville Ca