The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether states may reject religious charter schools from receiving public funding, agreeing to hear arguments in an appeal out of Oklahoma involving the first such school in the nation.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a case testing the separation of church and state.

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 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 US Supreme Court accepted a major new church-state showdown, agreeing to consider whether states with public charter schools are constitutionally required to approve and fund religious institutions as part of the program.

The Supreme Court will weigh the fate of an Oklahoma religious charter school that has blurred the lines between church and state, justices announced Friday in an unsigned order distributed days after President Donald Trump was sworn into office.

The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a case to determine whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school can open in Oklahoma, setting the stage for a major religious liberty ruling later this term.

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

The Oklahoma case arrives at the Supreme Court on the heels of several other cases related to religion and education.