The Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on whether to approve the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school Thursday, leaving intact a lower ruling that voided the Oklahoma school’s ...

An evenly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a religious school that sought public funding from the state of Oklahoma. In a 4-4 vote, the justices upheld the Oklahoma State Supreme ...

Oklahoma's Republican attorney general, Gentner Drummond, sued to block the opening of St. Isidore of Seville, arguing a religious public school would violate state law and the First Amendment's ...

WATCH: The legal battle in Oklahoma over public funding for a religious charter school If Roberts sides with the liberals, the court would be tied 4-4, an outcome that would leave the state court ...

It’s claiming that it has a right to access the public funds that all other charter schools in the state receive in order to provide a Catholic education. After Oklahoma approved St. Isidore ...

“Upholding the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act with the included exclusion of religious organizations would set a dangerous precedent, signaling that religious organizations are not welcome in ...

But this was a proposal aimed well beyond one tiny charter school for rural Oklahoma. It was part of a careful legal and political strategy aimed at affecting public and parochial education coast ...

A group of faith leaders, education advocates and parents filed an amicus brief Monday, urging the US Supreme Court to block Oklahoma’s first religious public school. The brief argued that public ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A group of Oklahoma faith leaders, public education advocates, and public-school parents – who are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit to stop Oklahoma’s creation of the nation’s ...

The Oklahoma State Department of Education is fighting to protect the ability of public schools to broadcast prayers. The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, filed a lawsuit last week in the U.S.

Norman Public Schools announced two of its educators, Emily Cohlmia and Twyla Hart, have been named Oklahoma finalists for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

Oklahoma’s top education official ... In response, he is seeking donations to expand the effort, but some school leaders are quietly pushing back. One high school principal stated the most ...