George Kent, founder and longtime music director of the Chorus of Westerly, died June 17 at age 88. Kent also served as ...

What happened A deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court Thursday effectively upheld the Oklahoma Supreme Court's decision to bar overtly religious public charter schools. The 4-4 decision, with Justice Amy ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — The Oklahoma charter school board cannot open the nation’s first religious charter school, the Supreme Court said on Thursday in an equally divided ruling. Splitting 4-4, the ...

Separation of church and state in the Constitution. Stanley Carlson-Thies retirement from Center for Public Justice. Supreme Court charter school case ...

Now comes Oklahoma, where the Catholic Church created St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School is seeking state recognition to become an explicitly religious charter school.

The court’s conservative majority appeared poised to rule that church-run schools have a right to operate as public-funded charters. The charter schools case highlighted the stark shift in ...

The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared poised Wednesday to rule that church-run schools have a right to operate as public-funded charters. If so, the decision could transform K-12 ...

A major test of the separation of church and state asks the Supreme Court to allow the country's first religious charter school in Oklahoma.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Catholic Church in Oklahoma wants taxpayers to fund an online charter school that “is faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ.” The Supreme Court could well approve. St.

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 30 will take up the much-debated case of a Roman Catholic charter school in Oklahoma.

So, the Catholic Church in Oklahoma asked to participate in the state’s charter school program with the St. Isidore of Seville school, which says it “fully incorporates” church dogma in ...

The Supreme Court’s review of an Oklahoma charter school could drastically change public education in the U.S.