The Supreme Court is weighing an Oklahoma case on whether to allow public funding of religious charter schools. It’s just one part of a new wave of initiatives by Christian groups to put more religion into public education.
Why it matters: A movement driven mostly by Republican-led states also is pushing to expand education voucher programs, require Bibles and the Ten Commandments in classrooms, and allow students to skip school for religious instruction.
The movement—fueled by a loose coalition of white evangelicals, conservative Catholics and some Black and Latino Protestant groups—seeks to chip away at the nation’s long-held doctrine separating church and state.
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