An Oklahoma school board on Monday rejected a proposal to create a Jewish public charter school, a decision that sets the stage for a First Amendment issue's potential return to the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Two of the new efforts involve proposed religious charter schools—the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School, a virtual school in ...

The Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board voted unanimously against creating a Jewish charter school. The application was previously submitted by the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation.

Members and staff of the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board pray at the beginning of a meeting Sept. 9, 2024, at the ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. An “explicitly Christian” charter school in Tennessee ...

A new religious charter school fight is brewing in Tennessee that has the potential to challenge a deadlock vote at the Supreme Court earlier this year that denied the creation of a similar ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked this year in a case over whether charter schools can be religious, experts said it wouldn’t take long for the question to re-emerge in another lawsuit. They were ...

In May, the Supreme Court managed to resolve the first big case about religious charter schools without deciding anything. In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, the justices split ...

Months after a Supreme Court deadlock blocked an attempt by a Catholic church to create the nation’s first openly religious, publicly funded charter school, a Jewish group is now advancing a similar ...

Washington DC - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to be leaning towards allowing public funding of a religious charter school in a case testing the historic separation of church and state.