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OKLAHOMA CITY — Three months before the nation’s first religious charter school is scheduled to open in Oklahoma, the state’s attorney general urged the state Supreme Court to void the school’s founding documents, contending its existence “eviscerates the separation of church and state.” Attorney General Gentner Drummond argued before the state’s nine justices on Tuesday […] The post Oklahoma Supreme Court hears Catholic charter school case appeared first on Arkansas Advocate.

“On July 1, we will violate the law,” Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond told the state Supreme Court Tuesday, laying out the stakes in a closely watched case that tests the separation of church and state in education. That’s the date the state will begin to transfer public funds to St. Isidore of Seville Catholic […]

Oklahoma Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical that the nation's first Catholic virtual charter school would be a private entity and not public.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court had agreed to hear oral arguments in the state attorney general’s attempt to block the creation of what is reportedly the first religious charter school in the United States.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond has sued to stop establishment of the school, which is favored by the governor and state schools superintendent.