St. Isidore Catholic Virtual Charter School

Oklahoma is again ground zero for a battle over publicly funded religious education as a proposed Jewish charter school looks to the courts for vindication. That’s despite members of the state’s Jewish community saying they weren’t consulted and are “deeply concerned” about the threat to the separation of church and state.

Board members said they were bound to follow the St. Isidore ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court, despite some doing so begrudgingly.

Plaintiffs opposing the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School announced Monday they are dropping their lawsuit following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond case next week.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider the case over what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school — the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School.

Gov. Kevin Stitt and State Superintendent Ryan Walters are urging the Supreme Court to take up a case involving what would be the nation’s first taxpayer-funded private school.

The Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board voted unanimously Monday to rescind the contract for what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school, the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School.

The Statewide Charter School Board voted Tuesday to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision the contract for the nation’s first publicly funded religious school was unconstitutional.

The Statewide Charter School Board gathered Monday for its first-ever meeting, and one of its first decisions was to hold off acting on a June State Supreme Court order to rescind the contract of the nation’s first publicly funded religious school.

Responding to a recent state Supreme Court decision against what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school, the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School’s board says it will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and voted Friday not to open its doors in the fall.