“The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation’s first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars,” ABC News reports.
“Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not take part in the decision.”
New York Times: “The brief ruling in one of the most anticipated cases of the term came as a surprise, after the oral arguments in April. A majority of the justices had appeared open to allowing Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school.”
Washington Post: “A ruling for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would have allowed, for the first time, direct and complete taxpayer funding to establish a faith-based school, sanctioning government sponsorship of a curriculum that calls for students to adhere to Catholic beliefs and the church’s religious mission.”
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