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The Supreme Court wrestles with what could be a landmark case on whether charter schools are public or private

and whether Oklahoma can deny a charter and public funding to a proposed Catholic virtual school.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined

today by my colleagues on the editorial page, Nicole Alt and Kate Batchelder O'Dell. The growth of

charter schools has been a huge story in American education in recent decades. They operate under

a government charter and with taxpayer funding, but the management and the operation of

these schools is often undertaken by private groups, nonprofits, and usually with more freedom

from regulations and union rules than in traditional K-12 public schools.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools says there are now about 8,000 of them

in the United States with a quarter million teachers and close to four million students.

But the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled against a charter application for St. Isidore of

Seville Catholic Virtual Schools, which wants to teach religious doctrine, the state Supreme

Court saying that that's because the state considers charters to be government schools.

It can require them to be secular.

So are charter schools public, or is this discrimination against a private religious nonprofit?

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