Oklahoma Supreme Court shuts down 'unconstitutional' taxpayer-funded Catholic school

Oklahoma Supreme Court shuts down ‘unconstitutional’ taxpayer-funded Catholic school Republican governor intends to appeal to Supreme Court as GOP officials test church-and-state firewalls The country’s first-ever publicly funded religious charter school is an unconstitutional “slippery slope” infringement of the First Amendment, according to Oklahoma’s Supreme Court. Last year, a state school board approved the creation of a taxpayer-supported online Catholic school — triggering a high-profile legal battle to decide whether public funds can be used to create religious schools. On …