Supreme Court to weigh bid to create first US religious charter school

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : A lower court blocked the establishment of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, ruling that its funding arrangement violated the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment limits on government endorsement of religion.
51% : Charter schools in Oklahoma are considered public schools under state law and draw funding from the state government.
49% : Drummond sued to block St. Isidore in an October 2023 legal action filed at the Oklahoma Supreme Court, saying he is "duty bound ... to protect religious liberty and prevent the type of state-funded religion that Oklahoma's constitutional framers and the founders of our country sought to prevent.
47% : Its pursuit of approval as a charter school has divided top officials in the Republican-governed state.
41% : But O'Connor's successor as attorney general, fellow Republican Gentner Drummond, withdrew that opinion in February 2023, saying it "misuses the concept of religious liberty by employing it as a means to justify state-funded religion.

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