School choice is on the move in America, and President Donald Trump’s January 29 executive order to expand education freedom and opportunity for families marks another critical step toward breaking public schools’ monopoly over the country’s educational system. Ensuring that religious freedom safeguards are part of school choice initiatives will be another crucial step.
Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a case involving St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which is run by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has sought to bar St. Isidore from the state’s charter school program. Approving St. Isidore, Drummond claims, “will require the state to permit extreme sects of the Muslim faith to establish a taxpayer-funded public charter school teaching Sharia Law.”
Unless religious freedom is safeguarded, the promise of…
