For the first time, the justices are being asked to decide whether overtly religious schools may be publicly funded charter schools. Like 45 other states, Oklahoma has enacted a charter school ...

Oklahoma, like 45 other states, has charter schools that allow for more flexibility and innovation in education. But under both the federal charter school law and similar state laws, charter ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether the Catholic Church in Oklahoma can run the nation’s first religious charter school, a potentially major expansion of the use ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on April 30 seemed sympathetic to the Catholic Church’s bid to create the nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma ...

The Supreme Court’s answer will determine whether a Catholic school in Oklahoma can become the nation’s first religious charter school. By Sarah Mervosh The very identity of the nation’s ...

Charter schooling has long suffered from a “more-of-the-same” problem. For all the opportunities to rethink the familiar schoolhouse, few of the nation’s 8,000 charter schools have actually ...

Such schools do, in fact, exist. They are not private schools and they are not traditional public schools — they are charter-public schools, usually referred to as charter schools. The most ...