With only eight justices voting, the 4-4 tie leaves in place an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that a public religious charter school would violate the separation of church and state.

The creation of the nation's first religious charter school was blocked by a tie vote from the U.S. Supreme Court.

The SCOTUS result was “great, because it’s status quo,” Yorgason said during the panel discussion. “We know the world that we ...

Supreme Court blocks creation of religious charter school in Oklahoma The court was deadlocked 4-4, which meant a state Supreme Court ruling that declared the school violated the constitutional ...

A Thursday statement from the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board’s executive director, Rebecca Wilkinson, accepted the Supreme Court’s ruling but reflected on the complicated nature of ...

Nine Oklahoma residents and a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting public education in Oklahoma filed a lawsuit in July 2023 in state court to stop Oklahoma from sponsoring and funding the ...

A ruling in favor of the school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, could lead to the country's first religious charter school and upend laws in at least 45 states and the District of ...

In a split decision, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to uphold a lower court decision that held a religious charter school cannot obtain public funding from the state of Oklahoma.

The Supreme Court on Thursday morning left in place a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejecting an effort by a Catholic virtual charter school to become the country’s first religious charter ...

(The Center Square) – The constitutionality of religious charter schools remains an open question after the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked, 4-4, over the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual ...

The case stems from the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board allowing the religious school in 2023 to join the dozens of other charter schools across the state.