Supreme Court of Oklahoma says no to Catholic charter school – but this may not be the end of the boundary-pushing saga

Officials have vowed to keep fighting for permission to open the school as a charter – which would be a controversial first for the country.

(THE CONVERSATION) In Oklahoma, the start of the school year is just six weeks away. But one closely watched school that had planned to open in 2024 is now in limbo: St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, a tuition-free, online, K-12 institution.

St. Isidore received a controversial go-ahead from a state school board in 2023. Like all charter schools, it would have been funded with public money, but with more independence than typical public schools. St. Isidore's would have been the nation's first religious charter school, raising immediate concerns about its constitutionality.

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