An Oklahoma state education board is set to vote on whether to approve the nation’s first religious charter school, potentially setting up a high-profile national legal battle over whether taxpayer money can be used to directly fund religious schools.
An Oklahoma state education board could vote as early as Tuesday on whether to approve the nation’s first religious charter school, potentially setting up a high-profile national legal battle over whether taxpayer money can be used to directly fund religious schools.
“We are trying to motivate the courts to take up this question and give us a final answer,” said Brett Farley, executive director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma, which represents the Catholic Church on policy issues and is behind the proposal. Walke, who works with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group, was alarmed by the St. Isidore’s application, which describes Catholic schools as participating in “the evangelizing mission of the Church.”Charter schools represent a hybrid — and growing — model of education. Like regular public schools, they are funded with taxpayer money and do not charge tuition.
“Are they really government agents, or are they more like a government contractor?” she asked, using the example of Lockheed Martin, a private company that contracts for the U.S. military.But the charter school movement sees itself as squarely in the sphere of public education, said Nina Rees, president and chief executive of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
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