Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2010
Publication Source
Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice
Abstract
In light of the legal and educational issues surrounding the status of religious charter schools, this article is divided into two parts. The first section reviews key litigation addressing the parameters of public aid to religiously affiliated nonpublic schools because these cases provide the necessary background should judicial challenges arise to faith-based charter schools. This first part of the paper also briefly reviews Supreme Court cases that forbid prayer and/or religious activities in school, an essential part of daily activities in religiously affiliated nonpublic schools that cannot continue in faith-based charter schools. The second part reviews educational and policy considerations dealing with how publicly funded financial assistance might impact the religious missions and identities of religiously affiliated nonpublic schools that seek to become faith-based charter schools; this section also reviews the constitutionality of both state aid to religious charter schools and the acceptability, if any, of prayer and religious activities in these schools. The article rounds out with a brief conclusion.
Inclusive pages
509-531
ISBN/ISSN
2164-0246
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2010, Trustees of Boston College
Publisher
Loyola Marymount University
Volume
13
Issue
4
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, CA
eCommons Citation
Russo, Charles J. and Cattaro, Gerald M., "Faith-Based Charter Schools: An Idea Whose Time Is Unlikely to Come" (2010). Educational Leadership Faculty Publications. 133.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/eda_fac_pub/133
Comments
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC-BY).
The publication was renamed the Journal of Catholic Education in 2013.
Permission documentation is on file.