OKLAHOMA CITY (July 30, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued a statement today following the Oklahoma Charter School Board's decision to defy the Oklahoma Supreme Court directive. The directive ordered the termination of an unlawful contract aimed at establishing what would be the nation’s first state-sponsored, taxpayer-funded religious public school.
Drummond stated, “Every Oklahoman should be outraged by the board’s blatant hostility toward religious liberty. Rather than acting to protect religious liberty, they are recklessly committed to using our tax dollars to fund radical religious teachings like Sharia law. I will continue to protect the religious liberty of all four million Oklahomans by upholding their constitutional rights.”