Religious public schools are the next major front in the battle over church–state separation — and 2026 is shaping up to be a turning point.

Forbes is reporting that multiple groups are now intentionally trying to create “test cases” to force the Supreme Court to decide whether public charter schools can legally be religious.

Here’s what’s happening:

🔹 Oklahoma — A proposed publicly funded Jewish religious charter is using the same strategy that brought St. Isidore to the Court. Their own legal team has said they plan to sue when the state rejects them.
🔹 Colorado — A “public Christian school” was rushed into existence with help from Alliance Defending Freedom specifically to challenge the wall between church and state. It’s already in trouble for operating as sectarian.
🔹 Becket & ADF — Two of the most powerful conservative legal groups are openly coordinating these cases to push religious public schools into the system.

This is not random.
This is not isolated.
This is a national legal strategy to dismantle the line that has protected public education for generations.

SEA is tracking every one of these developments — because what happens in Oklahoma and Colorado doesn’t stay there. It affects every public school in the country.

Families deserve a truly secular, inclusive public education system — not taxpayer-funded religious schools.

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