OKLAHOMA CITY — An attorney general opinion has blocked the Statewide Charter School Board from taking an uncommon extra vote on a Jewish charter school.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the legally binding opinion Thursday, stating a third vote on the school’s charter application would be illegal. He said state law allows the board to vote no more than twice on whether to approve a new online charter school.
The board had scheduled a special meeting Friday to reconsider Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School, which is seeking to become the first taxpayer-funded religious school in the nation. In light of Drummond’s opinion, though, the board opted not to vote on the school’s application to open.
A representative of Ben Gamla’s founding group did not immediately return a request for comment Friday afternoon…