Andy Smarick: If every other nonprofit is allowed to run a public charter school, isn’t it anti-religious discrimination to exclude faith-based orgs?
A little-noticed event in late 2022 destabilized a pillar of contemporary American K-12 education, namely that all schools considered part of the public system must be secular. Last December, the attorney general of Oklahoma issued an advisory opinion stating that, due to recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the state could no longer prohibit faith-based groups from operating charter schools. Catholic leaders seized the opportunity and applied to do just that; the state’s virtual charter board may vote on their application as early as next week.
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Andy Smarick is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter here.
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