Even with multiple lawsuits pending that create an uncertain future, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in Oklahoma — the nation’s first state-funded religious school — has begun accepting applications for K-12 education set to begin this August.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court denied a request Nov. 14 by the State Department of Education and Ryan Walters, Superintendent of Public Instruction, to intervene in a case about a potential Catholic virtual charter school in the state.
Oklahoma’s Attorney General Gentner Drummond is challenging the constitutionality of the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school after a state school board approved the Catholic school’s application.
After the attorney general of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against the nation’s first religious charter school on grounds that its establishment violates state and federal religious liberty protections, the school has responded that the suit “twists the law of religious liberty beyond recognition.”
A state school board in Oklahoma voted Oct. 9 to approve a contract with a Catholic charter school set to open next school year, making it the nation’s first state-funded religious school.
A proposed Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, slated to be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school, received its first legal challenge in a lawsuit filed on Monday.
A state school board in Oklahoma voted June 5 to approve the nation’s first publicly funded religious school.
In a brief order issued May 5, the Supreme Court blocked Oklahoma’s upcoming execution of death row inmate Richard Glossip scheduled for May 18.
An Oklahoma court has denied the request for a new trial for death row inmate Richard Glossip, even though the state’s attorney general said he had concerns about some of the testimony and evidence in the case.
Immediately after the Oklahoma attorney general asked a state appeals court to vacate the sentence of Richard Glossip, a prisoner who had been on death row for nearly 25 years, Sister Helen Prejean tweeted the news.
