BREAKING NEWS: A group of Oklahoma faith leaders, public education advocates, and public-school parents – who are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit to stop Oklahoma’s creation of the nation’s first religious public charter school – today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to protect religious freedom and public education by affirming that charter schools are public schools that must be secular and open to all students. https://www.au.org/the-latest/press/religious-public-charter-school-scotus/ (fb)

Facts, data and history are important, but at this moment in our national life, they only take you so far. Personal stories pack a wallop and put a human face on an issue like church-state separation that can often seem to be legalistic and theoretical. (fb)