Supreme Court to decide if public charter schools can be religious


The US constitution forbids the government from “establishing” religion, but also says that the government cannot ban the use of religion.

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WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court on Friday said that it would decide whether Oklahoma could set up the country’s first religious charter school that could allow taxpayer funds to be used for faith-based programs in recent years.

The matter is also noteworthy as the state’s Republican Governor and the Attorney General were in opposition positions in funding the school.

The US Constitution forbids the government from establishing religion, but also says that the government cannot free people from using religion freely.

In some recent cases where those parts of the Constitution are in stress, the Supreme Court has attracted the protection of religious exercise by blurring the church and the state’s separating line.

In 2022, the court said that the indirect relief program based on the religious use of the funds of the schools could not exclude religious schools.

In 2020, the court said that the Montana Scholarship program could not exclude religious schools if the program was open to any private schools.

In 2017, the court supported the challenge of a church to remove the playgrounds from the Missouri Grant Program to re -surgery.

Under the same argument, the Arc device of Oklahoma City and Tulsa’s Diaysis said they should be able to run a K-12 Charter school, though the curriculum would include religious instructions.

But the Oklahoma Supreme Court last year ruled that Charter School – which uses taxpayers money but has private operators – are public schools and state law needs public education secular.

“The charter schools in Oklahoma have all the characteristics of a public school that is identified as the court and even more.” Told the US Supreme Court, Emphasize not to join them.

Drumand Have said Catholic charter will allow the school to “open the flood routes and force taxpayers to fund all kinds of religious sanctions, including fundamentalists, or the church of the church of the devil.”

Oklahoma Government Kevin Stat, a Republican who supports the Charter School, A short filed Criticizing the Attorney General’s “open enmity against religion”.

After the court agreed to hear the case, Stet said that it was “one of the most important religious and education freedom decisions in our lives.”

“We have seen ugly religious intolerance from opponents of the liberation movement for education, but I look forward to seeing the protection of my religious freedoms throughout the country and all over the country,” he said in a statement.

Seoul was the Catholic Virtual School’s proposed St. Icedor Easily passed. In 2023 by the State Governing Board for Charter Schools. Board lawyers, represented by the Conservative Legal Advocate Group Alliance, defending freedom, Told the judges They should step because “religious parents are being punished for trying to use their religion.”

Their appeal as well as a Separate one filed by the Catholic ChurchHad the support of several conservative and religious groups and eight conservative states. The states said they needed clarification from the Supreme Court how the charter schools could run.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools opposed the establishment of a St.…. The Public Charter School has joint steps with the state and they have to accept the rights and responsibilities of the group. Told the Supreme CourtFor, for, for, for,.

With the expected decision in the summer, the matter will probably be discussed in the spring.

(This story was updated with new information.)

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