{"id":2670031,"date":"2026-09-25T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-allows-jewish-charter-school-to-move-forward-in-oklahoma\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:38:54","slug":"federal-court-allows-jewish-charter-school-to-move-forward-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-allows-jewish-charter-school-to-move-forward-in-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal court allows Jewish charter school to move forward 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\">22<\/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%2Ffederal-court-allows-jewish-charter-school-to-move-forward-in-oklahoma%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=2670031&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--><p>A federal judge ruled that Oklahoma officials cannot prevent a jewish school, the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation, from participating in the state\u2019s charter school program. This decision was made over a year after the Supreme Court declined to rule on the constitutionality of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-to-decide-fate-of-first-publicly-funded-catholic-charter-school-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Supreme Court to decide fate of first publicly funded Catholic charter ... - Washington Examiner\">taxpayer-funded religious charter schools<\/a>. Judge David Russell found that excluding the religious school violates the first Amendment, which prohibits the government from discriminating against religious institutions. Oklahoma officials argued that admitting the school would violate the Establishment clause, but the judge rejected this argument, affirming that religious schools cannot be excluded solely based on their religious character.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A federal judge ruled that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/oklahoma\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"715\">Oklahoma<\/a> officials cannot exclude a Jewish school from the state\u2019s charter school program, more than a year after the Supreme Court <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3419408\/supreme-court-religious-charter-school-oklahoma-deadlocked\/\">punted<\/a> on the constitutionality of taxpayer-funded religious <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/charter-schools\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"2496\">charter schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. District Judge David Russell, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.okwd.134981\/gov.uscourts.okwd.134981.121.0.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.okwd.134981\/gov.uscourts.okwd.134981.121.0.pdf\">found<\/a> that Oklahoma officials\u2019 denial of the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation into the charter program violates the First Amendment because the state cannot \u201csingle out <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/religious-freedom\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"627\">religious<\/a> schools for exclusion solely because of their religious character.\u201d Oklahoma officials had argued that allowing the school into the program would violate the First Amendment\u2019s establishment clause, which bars the government from establishing a state religion, an argument the judge rejected.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<style>.explore-more-section { background: var(--wex-bg); 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