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Oklahoma asks state high court to force school board to cancel Catholic charter contract

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Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond this week is petitioning the state Supreme Court to force education officials to comply with an earlier court order, one that directed them to cancel the state’s contract with a Catholic charter school.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court earlier this summer ruled against the establishment of St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Charter School. The publicly funded, Catholic-directed institution would be the first of its kind in the nation.

The court argued that extending public funding to a religious school would be a “slippery slope” that could lead to “the destruction of Oklahomans’ freedom to practice religion without fear of governmental intervention.” It ordered the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board to rescind the school’s contract.

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I agree! When the state funds things, they more often than not, have strings attached to them.

The strings may go against Catholic Doctrine, and it wouldn't surprise me if it did.
 
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