The Oklahoma Supreme Court determined that direct public funding for a religious school violated the state’s prohibition on funding religious institutions. In June 2023, the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved a charter for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School. The Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa, which submitted the application, would run the school, which would make it the first publicly funded religious charter school in the country. The board approved the application by a 3–2 vote just two months after unanimously reject…