The split vote from the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board on Monday caps months of debate.
, including Gov. Kevin Stitt and Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
Catholic Church officials formally asked Oklahoma’s virtual charter school board early this year to open the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. But faith leaders, elected officials and public school advocates have urged board members to reject the proposal, drawing a rebuke from recently elected state Superintendent Ryan Walters.
Rachel Laser, head of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, all but promised a lawsuit to challenge the vote. The legal battle over public religious charters could reach the U.S. Supreme Court before the Oklahoma decision is challenged. Late last month, the Biden administrationa conservative-led petition to review a North Carolina dress code case that has galvanized advocates who hope to clear a path to publicly-funded religious charter schools.
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