An ongoing point of contention in education is the values schools instill in their students. A recent example concerns charter schools, which are publicly funded, tuition-free, and open to all students. They operate with greater autonomy and flexibility from district rules in exchange for meeting specific performance goals outlined in their charters.
But what about religious charters? St. Isidore, a virtual Catholic school in Oklahoma, has been trying to become the country’s first of its kind. It came close last year when it asked the Supreme Court to reverse an Oklahoma court ruling that a taxpayer-funded Catholic charter would violate state law requiring charter schools to be nonsectarian. But with Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused from Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, the Court split 4-4.
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