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The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board meets Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, at Oklahoma History Center to consider a charter contract for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Charter School. ( Nuria Martinez-Keel / Oklahoma Voice) OKLAHOMA CITY — The nation’s first Catholic charter school cleared its final bureaucratic hurdle and could open next year, barring a court order forbidding it. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Charter School will be the first state-funded religious school. The school, created by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa, is expected to open for the 2024-25 school year with a first-year enrollment goal of 500 students. The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 3-2 on Monday to approve a charter contract for St. Isidore of Seville. The school would provide a free, online education to students in all parts of Oklahoma. Although it will be expressly Catholic, the school’s contract states no student will be denied admission on the basis of religion, lack of faith, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. At this stage, only a court order could forbid the school from opening. A lawsuit was filed in July in Oklahoma County District Court asking for exactly […]