The First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing or promoting a religion. In this sense, it provides for a separation between church and state. How separate they are, though, continues to evolve. A trilogy of U.S. Supreme Court cases—Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer (2017), Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue (2020), and Carson v. Makin […]
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Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville School v. Drummond Oral Argument
Courtesy of CSPAN https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/oklahoma-charter-school-board-v-drummond-and-st-isidore-of-seville-school-v-drummond-oral-arugment/658880 April 30, 2025 The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) heard oral argument in Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville School v. Drummond, a consolidated case about the constitutionality of states supporting religious charter schools with public funding. In 2023, St. Isidore, Inc., applied to Oklahoma’s charter school board to establish St. […]
Oklahoma SCOTUS Case: A Primer
Foundations of Chartering Policy “Charter schools” began as an idea about how to improve public education. Though its origins extend through the decades, the idea came together in the late 1980s as a response to the 1983 report, A Nation at Risk. In general, the original charter idea embraced three principles: 1) parental choice among […]
