No. 24-394October Term 2024Decided May 22, 2025
Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, et al., Petitioners v. Gentner Drummond, Attorney General of Oklahoma, ex rel. Oklahoma
This case involves a dispute over whether a state can authorize a religious charter school, specifically focusing on whether the school's actions count as state action and if excluding religious schools from charter programs violates the First Amendment.
Case status
- Current stage
- Decided
- Latest event
- Decision released May 22, 2025
- What it's about
This case involves a dispute over whether a state can authorize a religious charter school, specifically focusing on whether the school's actions count as state action and if excluding religious schools from charter programs violates the First Amendment. The Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's decision by an equally divided vote, leaving in place the ruling that invalidated the contract with the Catholic virtual charter school.
Question presented
1. Are a privately owned and operated school’s educational decisions considered state action simply because the school has a contract with the state to provide free education to students? 2. Does the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause prohibit, or the Establishment Clause require, a state to exclude religious schools from its charter-school program?
- Case path
Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Decision released May 22, 2025
- Area
First Amendment, Business and Regulation
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Grounding
- Grounding
- Primary-source trail available.
- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Mar 30, 2026
- Method
- Methodology
Primary materials8
Supreme Court docket 24-394
docket | Mar 30, 2026
Primary case document
Supreme Court document | Mar 30, 2026
CourtListener docket record
docket | Mar 30, 2026
Questions Presented
brief | Mar 8, 2026
Opinion
opinion | May 22, 2025
Drummond
opinion | May 22, 2025
Oral Arguments - Drummond
audio | Apr 30, 2025
Petition
brief | Oct 7, 2024