Amid the tumult of President Donald Trump’s first week back in office, the Supreme Court accepted a landmark case that could allow religious public schools.

The case is being eyed closely because it could set a precedent. Should St. Isidore win, it would mean public money would flow to a religious school.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider allowing the nation's first publicly-funded religious charter school to open in Oklahoma in Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board v. Drummond.The court announced the justices' decision to pick up the case on Friday.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.

The United States Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal in a case centered on whether Oklahoma can approve the creation of the nation s first religious charter school

The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 3-2 in 2023 to approve the archdiocese’s application to open St. Isidore. Catholic leaders and their attorneys contend charter schools are not true public schools, though they rely on public funding, and therefore should be able to adopt a religion.

The proposal to create the nation’s first religious charter school paid for by taxpayer funds could move the line between church and state in education.

The Supreme Court took more religious rights cases in recent years than it heard in the previous two decades. Is it eroding the wall between church and state?

The Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed with the state of Oklahoma and blocked the opening of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, but recently, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. The school’s argument is essentially that the establishment clause,

For years, the Supreme Court has been expanding the boundaries of government aid to religious schools. St. Isidore’s case pushes the debate into new territory.