WASHINGTON — Oklahoma will not be able to launch the nation's first religious public charter school after the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 Thursday in a major case on the separation of church ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school on May 22, reigniting debates about the separation of church and state in the United States.

With only eight justices voting, the 4-4 tie leaves in place an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that a public religious charter school would violate the separation of church and state.

WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school, a major loss for those advocating a greater role for religion in public life.

Second, the exclusion of religious applicants from charter school programs open to other private groups raises profound constitutional questions. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the ...

Oklahoma's charter school board and St. Isidore's appealed the state court ruling to the Supreme Court, and it said in January it would review that decision. Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter ...

Already a subscriber? Log in A deadlocked Supreme Court sidestepped a decision about whether to allow the United States’ first public religious charter school, preserving the church-state wall ...

When the justices announced in January they would review that ruling ... who argued the case before the Supreme Court on behalf of Oklahoma’s charter school board. Even those who were pleased ...

Several organizations have voiced concerns about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a case regarding an Oklahoman religious public charter school. The Freedom From Religion Foundation ...

The Supreme Court deadlocked Thursday in a case that decided whether Oklahoma could provide funding to a religious charter school, the justices’ first tie vote on a major case in nearly a decade.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a very wise decision recently, one that offers both relief and opportunities for Minnesotans. On ...