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 Supreme Court agreed to hear a new church-state case that could yield a potentially momentous decision and change the funding of public schools in much of the nation.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday 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 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 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 Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether the state of Oklahoma may fund a proposed religious charter school, the first of its kind in the country

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a bid by Oklahoma officials to approve the nation's first publicly-funded religious charter school.