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.

Education advocates worried the case would pave the way for further erosion of the separation between church and state.

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 case centered on St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, an online-only institution that wanted to launch as a ...

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 ...

Recently, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) preserved that promise by upholding a lower court ruling in ...

Epic Charter Schools is currently under investigation by the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board. The board said they are ...

A split Supreme Court ruling upholds a lower court decision that prohibited Oklahoma from establishing the nation's first ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a major victory for religious freedom and public education, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that blocked approval of the nation’s first religious ...

The charter school case is one of several major religious rights cases the Supreme Court will be deciding before its term ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday morning left in place a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejecting an effort by a Catholic ...

A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday effectively blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school in Oklahoma, leaving in place a state Supreme Court ruling that barred ...