Episode 80 Oklahoma Supreme Court Blocks Establishment of Nation’s First Religious Charter School

In this episode, host Sloan Simmons engages with Lozano Smith 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 For more information on the topics discussed in this podcast, please visit our website at: www.lozanosmith.com/podcast.