Oklahoma’s Statewide Charter School Board wants to approve religious charter schools, but a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court and efforts by the state attorney general prevent it from doing so. The Oklahoma Supreme Court sided against the school, finding that charter schools are public schools and that public schools must be secular. Amid no clear guidance from the federal courts, a Jewish organization — National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation — filed an application to set up a charter school, which was denied. Attorneys for FFRF are representing seven Oklahomans who oppose their tax money being used to support religious charter schools. “A religious public charter school has no place in our secular public education system.”