A new application for a religious charter school is stirring up far-reaching questions about the constitutionality of public aid to faith-based institutions.
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The Southern Plains states get a severe drought about once a decade, but long-lasting droughts lately have been leaving farms, rangeland and water sources with too little time to recover.
An education law professor unpacks what the Supreme Court’s 4-4 order does and doesn’t say.
The Supreme Court’s order has blocked this particular charter school, but similar issues could emerge in future cases.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond on April 30, 2025.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments about the Oklahoma school in April.
For years, the Supreme Court has been expanding the boundaries of government aid to religious schools. St. Isidore’s case pushes the debate into new territory.
Conservatives say the U.S. immigration system is broken, but it was never fixed. More than 100 years ago, white migrants invaded Indigenous territory — but they had
the power to change laws.
State superintendent Ryan Walters has mandated that public school teachers incorporate the Bible into classroom lessons.
Officials have vowed to keep fighting for permission to open the school as a charter – which would be a controversial first for the country.
Spring 2024 was menacing for large parts of the US, with a tornado nearly every day in May. Tornado outbreaks tore up communities across multiple states.
The Supreme Court has twice weighed in on ‘release time’ policies, and many states allow districts to implement them.
In 1922, Oregon voters approved an initiative to require public school for most students ages 8-16 − but it didn’t hold up in court.
The state’s largest wildfire on record tore across the heart of Texas cattle country, and more days of strong winds were forecast. A rangeland ecologist explains why the flames spread so fast.
Despite the perpetrators being tried and convicted, anti-Indigenous sentiment roiled the area for decades.
The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native Americans. Much of this theft was guided and sanctioned by federal law.
The school’s approval may be the strongest challenge yet to limits on public money in religious schools.
Despite support for clemency from Oklahoma’s top prosecutor, a death row inmate appears set to die on May 18.
Rather than protecting some of the world’s most vulnerable children, many of Africa’s orphanages are exploiting them.
In 1972, justices handed down a decision that attacked discriminatory and capricious death sentences. But it left the door ajar for states to continue the practice.
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Alberta
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Susan S. Engeleiter Professor of Education Law, Policy and Practice, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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John and Maria Neag Professor of Urban Education, University of Connecticut
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