Crash Course: Oklahoma Republicans pave the way for the Supreme Court to end secular education

A taxpayer-funded religious school is a Christian nationalist move to destroy separation of church and state. [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYug9P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvcjYycDhpbmV0Ni8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTMwN2k1cHNzNmhXA3NwY0IKZH89Y4BkRpwYxVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYug9P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvMTR0Z2dseHlqNi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTMwN2k1cHNzNmgmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZH89Y4BkRpwYxVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Oklahoma Republicans pave the way for the Supreme Court to end secular education The latest addition to the Oklahoma charter school world doesn't seem like much of a school at all. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School doesn't offer in-person classes, despite the end of a pandemic that illustrated how crucial real world contact is to education. Its first application to be a charter school in Oklahoma was rejected, [because it failed to meet the not-exactly-high state](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYug9P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdzg4aG5ucGRqOS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTMwN2k1cHNzNmhXA3NwY0IKZH89Y4BkRpwYxVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) standards set by Oklahoma law. If providing quality education to Oklahoma students was the goal, then the choice to approve this school doesn't make any sense at all. But, of course, Oklahoma is run by far-right Republicans who are far more interested in pushing a Christian nationalist agenda than serving the needs of their constituents. Republicans didn't approve St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School to be funded by the taxpayers because of its educational value. 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A new round of anti-vax misinformation could ruin an otherwise calmer RSV season COVID-19 hasn't been the only threat to parents and their children since 2020. 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