Testing the Boundaries of Religion in Public Education
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Testing the Boundaries of Religion in Public Education
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Oklahoma made history by approving the nation’s first openly religious public charter school, sparking a constitutional clash that ended in a Supreme Court deadlock and left the broader questions about the constitutional validity of religious charter schools up in the air. The central issue: are charter schools truly public schools that need to remain secular under the Establishment Clause, or are they privately run entities entitled to equal protection under the Free Exercise Clause?
In this episode of Legal Judg(e)ments, host Bob Stetson sits down with Christopher Schandevel, Senior Counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and one of the attorneys representing the charter school. They break down the high-stakes legal battle of Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, discussing how the case tested the boundaries of church-state law, the role of religious freedom in publicly funded education, and the questions it leaves open for future courts to address.