WASHINGTON–The Supreme Court today released a 4-4 ruling in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond. The ruling allows states to require charter schools to be non-religious.  

Thomas Jipping, a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, added: 

“This case raised some novel issues involving the First Amendment’s religion clauses and could be resolved in several different ways. With no majority and no separate opinions, we can’t know how the Justices wrestled with these different options. The issues raised here will likely return to the Court, perhaps in a case better suited for resolution.”