But process failures should not obscure the larger question of whether Jewish charter schools, properly structured and legally sound, serve a legitimate role in American Jewish life. Jewish charter schools cannot offer prayer, religious instruction or ritual observance in the way private day schools do. The governing principle remains clear: States may not exclude schools from public programs solely because they are religious, but public charter schools must still operate as public schools, not vehicles for taxpayer-funded religious instruction. Jewish charter schools can survive constitutional scrutiny only if Jewish content remains cultural rather than devotional and enrollment is open and nondiscriminatory. Jewish charter schools are not a substitute for day schools.