Supreme Court to consider the effort to establish the first publicly funded religious charter school in the country
Supreme Court It will take the effort to establish the first religious charter school in the country with implications to the selection of school and religious practice.
On Friday, the Court agreed to hear two cases on the matter, which will be discussed together – the Committee on the Charter School in the State of Oklahom against Drummond and St. Isidore from Sevilli Catholic Virtual School against Drummond.
2023, the State Committee on the Virtual Charter School voted the approval of the report of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa for the K-12 Internet School, St. Isidore from the Virtual Charter of the Seville School.
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Parents of OklahomaReligious leaders and educational groups sought to block the school after approval.
In the Decision 7-1, the Supreme Court in Oklahoma found that a religious charter school that fundes the taxpayer tax will violate the provision of the first amendment on the “establishment of religion” and the State Constitution.
The Supreme Court will take away the effort to establish the first religious charter school in the country. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)
“According to the law of Oklahoma, the charter school is a public school,” justice James Winchester wrote in the opinion of the majority court. “As such, the charter of the school must be a non -sectative.
“However, St. Isidore will evangelize the Catholic School Teaching Plan and Program, while they will sponsor the state.”
The Union defending Freedom Chief Advisor Jim Campbell told the Fox News Digital case “Basically refers to religious discrimination and school choice.”
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“The Supreme Court has been clear in three cases in the last eight years that you cannot create such a public program and then turn off religious organizations“Campbell said.” So, we will claim that the state of Oklahoma should be allowed to open the program to religious organizations. “
The State Attorney General Oklahoma, the Attorney General, originally provoked the school approval. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Campbell says that the decision would give parents, families and state more “more educational opportunities”.
A Republican State Attorney General in Oklahoma, who originally challenged the school approval, had previously said that the founding of the school was unconstitutional. His spokesman said Fox News Digital in a statement that the Attorney General “is looking forward to our arguments before the High Court.”
“I will continue to defend the religious freedom of all 4 million Oklahoman,” Drummond said in a statement published in October. “This unconstitutional scheme for creating the first state religious school school will sponsors the floods and force taxpayers to finance all kinds of religious indoctrination, including radical Islam or even the Satanic Church. My colleagues Oklahomani can always be sure that I will always be sure that I will always ensure that I will always be sure that I will always be sure that I will always be sure to protect myself to protect your God who have supported the law. “
The Oklahoma case is one of several cases of religious institution that have been submitted to the Supreme Court.
In 2017, the High Court ruled for the benefit of the Church in Missouri, which sued the state after being denied the funds of taxpayers for the playground project as a result of the provision prohibiting state funding of religious entities.
Likewise, in 2020, the Supreme Court banned the prohibition of financing taxpayers for religious schools in the 5-4 decision, which supported the Scholarship of the Tax loan scholarship in Montana. Recently, in 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that the tuitionary assistance program had violated a clause on the free exercise of the first amendment for the exclusion of religious schools from eligibility.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett got out of a case, although not a given explanation. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Campbell said that in view of the previous considerations of the court on religious educational institutionsHe is “hope that the Supreme Court will admit that the same principle is applied here. “
“You can’t create a charter school program that allows you to participate in private organizations, but tell religious groups that they cannot include them,” Campbell said. “So, we hope that the Supreme Court will make it clear that people of faith deserve to be part of the charter school program.”
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett got out of a case, although not a given explanation. The Supreme Court is expected to listen to oral arguments in April.
The choice of school became a question of hot buttons, especially after the 2024 election cycle. President Donald Trump recently signed two education executives, one to remove federal financing from the K-12 schools that teach The theory of critical race And another one to support the school election.
Ronn Blitzer Fox News Digital and Associated Press contributed to this report.
