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Oklahoma OKs the nation’s first religious charter school – but litigation is likely to follow

Exclude from home pageBNG staff  |  June 8, 2023

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U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can be used at private religious schools. And on June 5, 2023, Oklahoma’s five-person Statewide Virtual Charter School Board pushed this much-debated question into new territory by approving plans for a religious charter school – the first in the nation.

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