E80 Oklahoma Supreme Court Blocks Establishment of Nation’s First Religious Charter School
In this episode of our podcast, host Sloan Simmons engages with Lozano Smith's charter school experts Courtney de Groof and Eric Barba. The group discusses the recent Oklahoma Supreme Court decision to block the nation’s first proposed religious charter school and implications of this development here in California and more broadly.
Show Notes & References
- 1:55 – Drummond vs. Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board (Client News Brief 31 - August 2023)
- 7:23 – Issues presented in Oklahoma Decision
- 8:42 – Oklahoma State Charter Schools Act
- 9:45 – Federal constitutional questions that were addressed
- 12:22 – Federal cases (Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer (2017) 582 U.S. 449; Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, et al (2020) 591 US 464)
- 19:11 – Big picture takeaways
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