A new poll finds few Americans support allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools.

WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school, a major loss for those advocating a greater role for religion in public life ...

The case tests whether public money can be used to fund a religious charter school in Oklahoma, and its outcome could affect how public education funds are used in virtually all states.

St. Isidore appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and on Wednesday the school's lawyer, James Campbell, will tell the justices that by excluding religious schools from the charter system, the state ...

If religious charter schools expand nationwide, faith-based schools struggling to keep their doors open could apply to become charters. If approved, this would further strain public school budgets.

Supporters of religious charter schools rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 30 as the justices weighed Oklahoma's approval of such a charter.

A surprise Supreme Court ruling on Thursday prevented the nation’s first religious charter school from opening in Oklahoma, in a 4-to-4 vote that seemed to put the brakes on a conservative ...

Oklahoma’s 30 charter schools educated about 7% of the state’s public-school students during the 2022-2023 school year. Nationally, there are more than 8,000 charter schools serving nearly 3.8 ...

The contract that the charter school board signed with the school indicated that the school is allowed to freely exercise its religious beliefs. The state’s attorney general, Republican Gentner ...

Supreme Court to decide if public charter schools can be religious The U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from “establishing” a religion, but also says the government can’t prohibit ...

An effort to establish the first publicly funded religious charter school in the country was blocked by the Oklahoma Supreme Court Tuesday. The court ordered the state to rescind its contract with ...