Supreme Court, Charters, and Oklahoma
What’s Happening & Why It Matters
Dear Colleagues:
Just about every charter school conversation these days turns to Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, the two U.S. Supreme Court cases that could affect the future of charter schools everywhere.
Robust debate is fundamental to the idea and practice of chartering – a movement founded on challenging public education’s givens with strong new ideas for school models, governing systems, classroom practice, and family engagement.
The National Charter Schools Institute is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that works to democratize excellence in education. Though our team is champions for great charter schools for kids, we are not an advocacy organization. Instead, we were founded to help implement the nation’s charter schools laws—and that’s a big part of what we do today. As such, we view it as our responsibility to inform the public discourse and be ready to help out to put decisions into action.
Our primary initiative to inform the public discourse is the National Charter Schools Founders Library. Stocked with original source documents and oral histories, the Library is the nation’s only repository of content detailing the original intent of bill sponsors, governors, school founders, thought leaders and others who have directly shaped state and federal charter laws and programs.
There, you will also find a special collection on the Oklahoma cases. This collection was curated to help everyone put the cases in context.
We make this collection publicly accessible free of charge to scholars, journalists, policymakers, the legal community, and any other person interested in learning about the origins of charter school policies across our nation.
And if you find this resource valuable, please consider making a financial contribution to the Founders Library. Any donation will help defray the costs of collecting, expanding, producing and curating these historic assets.
Thank you for being here and for the work you do.
Sincerely,
Jim Goenner, President and CEO
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