OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma state board has scheduled an uncommon third vote on a first-in-the-nation Jewish charter school.
The Statewide Charter School Board will meet at noon Friday at the state Capitol to reconsider Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School’s application to open, according to a meeting agenda released Wednesday. Ben Gamla applied to become the first state-funded religious charter school in the country.
The school failed to earn board approval last week in a 4-3 vote. It fell one vote short of the five needed to pass. One member of the nine-seat board was absent, and another position is vacant…