Public education lives to fight another day

Raise a glass today to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, whose decision to block a religious charter school was upheld today due to a deadlocked Supreme Court: 

This is like when a motion deadlocks in a public body; it doesn't go forward. Thus there is no written decision, and we don't even know who voted which way (though the bets are that Roberts went with the more liberal justices).

K-12 Dive has the education take here; Nina Totenberg for NPR is here. You know I'll recommend that you read Chris Geidner of Law Dork, who notes the following: 

The one-sentence ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court creates no new national precedent, and the tie was the result of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s recusal from the case. A new challenge not requiring her recusal could easily return to the court in short order — especially now that the court has shown its interest in taking on the issue.

Still celebrate the win: 

But, with Thursday’s decision, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School’s application to become the nation’s first religious charter school cannot go forward.