The case is being eyed closely because it could set a precedent. Should St. Isidore win, it would mean public money would flow to a religious school.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider reviving an effort to create the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. In what is set to become a major case implicating religious rights,

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row over concerns that prosecutors’ discussion of her sexual history rendered her trial unfair in the murder of her estranged husband.

The proposal to create the nation’s first religious charter school paid for by taxpayer funds could move the line between church and state in education.

The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh whether public funds can be used to establish a religious charter school, testing the separation of church and state.