{"id":1945189,"date":"2023-06-06T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-approves-first-religious-charter-school-in-united-states\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:15:05","slug":"oklahoma-approves-first-religious-charter-school-in-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-approves-first-religious-charter-school-in-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"First religious charter school approved in Oklahoma."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foklahoma-approves-first-religious-charter-school-in-united-states%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Oklahoma School Board Approves First Taxpayer-Funded Religious Charter School<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>An empty elementary school \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Exciting news for the Catholic Church as the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board has approved the creation of the first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-approves-first-religious-charter-school-in-united-states\/\" title=\"First religious charter school approved in Oklahoma.\">taxpayer-funded religious charter school<\/a> in the United States. The St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School will offer online education for kindergarten through high school, initially for 500 students and eventually 1,500.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the approval, opponents of the school have vowed a legal challenge, which promises to be a long court battle testing the application of the First Amendment. Any legal fight could test the scope of the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s First Amendment &#8220;establishment clause,&#8221; which restricts the government from officially endorsing any particular religion.<\/p>\n<h3>Board Approval<\/h3>\n<p>The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved the plan to create the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in a 3-2 vote. The board had previously rejected the first plan submitted for the school in April, stating that they needed more details, including on the special education department.<\/p>\n<p>Board members have emphasized repeatedly that they were not voting on the constitutionality of such a school, but only whether the application met the board&#8217;s standards. Charter schools are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-democrats-to-introduce-bill-that-would-allow-tech-companies-to-create-governments-report\/\" title=\"Nevada Democrats To Introduce Bill That Would \u2018Allow Tech Companies To Create Governments\u2019: Report\">publicly funded<\/a>, independently run schools established under the terms of a charter with a local or national authority.<\/p>\n<h3>Legal Battle<\/h3>\n<p>Church officials have said they hope the case will reach the U.S. Supreme Court, where a 6-3 conservative majority has taken an expansive view of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-is-nothing-equal-about-the-equality-act\/\" title=\"There Is Nothing \u2018Equal\u2019 About The \u2018Equality Act\u2019\">religious rights<\/a>, including in two rulings since 2020 concerning schools in Maine and Montana.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School came from the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, and the law school at the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic institution in Indiana, helped with the application.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The approval of the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School marks a significant moment in the history of education in the United States. It will be interesting to see how the legal battle unfolds and what impact it will have on the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-approves-countrys-first-religious-charter-school\/\" title=\"OK approves first religious charter school in US.\">religious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-blasted-for-huge-funds-reopening-schools\/\" title=\"WATCH: Biden Blasted For Huge Funds Reopening Schools\">charter schools<\/a><\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma&#8217;s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board has approved the Catholic Church&#8217;s application to establish the first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in the US. However, opponents have promised a legal challenge, which could be a long court battle testing the application of the First Amendment. The school, named St. Isidore, will be created in an empty elementary school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1945190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[8850,9325,12474,4054,3924],"class_list":["post-1945189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-approved","tag-charter","tag-oklahoma","tag-religious","tag-school"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}