Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican who supported St. Isidore, dismissed the outcome as a “non-decision” and vowed to keep fighting against what he said was religious discrimination.

Oklahoma cannot proceed with opening the nation’s first publicly funded religious school after a 4-4 Supreme Court vote.

Oklahoma will not be able to launch the nation's first religious public charter school after the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 in a major case on the separation of church and state.