Supreme Court tie vote prevents launch of government-funded parochial school

Decision means issue could return if another state OKs religious charter school

Photo of the Supreme Court building by Mark Thomas; licensed by Pixabay.

By the narrowest of margins — and without giving any clues about its reasoning beyond what justices gave during oral arguments last month — the U.S. Supreme Court today ended plans by a statewide Oklahoma school board to create the nation’s first government parochial school.

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