Supreme Court seems poised to require state-funded charter schools to include religious schools

But at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the questions posed by the conservative justices seemed to lean heavily in favor of allowing religious schools to become publicly funded charter schools. Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson noted that the 1994 federal law creating the charter school program specifically says that charter schools have to be non-sectarian. Charter schools are, without exception, public schools, he said, noting that in New Orleans, for example, the city's only public schools are charter schools. What, he asked, would teachers be able to teach if religious schools were added to public charter schools? If he votes the other way, the tie vote would automatically uphold the lower court decision that barred religious schools from being public charter schools.