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.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett's absence due to recusal was key to the outcome of the case, and the issue could return to the court in the future to be heard before all its members.

on Thursday announced a 4-4 deadlock in a case challenging Oklahoma’s unprecedented approval of a religious charter school. “The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided court,” Chief ...

A split Supreme Court ruling upholds a lower court decision that prohibited Oklahoma from establishing the nation's first Christian charter school.

The charter school case is one of several major religious rights cases the Supreme Court will be deciding before its term ...

Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has made expanding school choice a top priority. Although he has pushed for major cuts to other educational programs, his proposed federal ...

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.

The nation’s first religious charter school lost a Supreme Court challenge to a ruling from a court in Oklahoma that found the school unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked in a 4-4 ...

Massachusetts school officials criticized for advancing policy that would prevent religious groups like House of Promise ...

The issue of whether religious institutions must be permitted to participate in state charter school systems is likely to land before the Supreme Court again in a case likely to involve all nine ...

One hundred years after the Scopes trial, religious ideologues are still trying to supplant evidence-based curricula with ...

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