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The US supreme court is set on Wednesday to hear arguments in a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a major test of religious rights and the separation of church and state in American education.

Organizers of the proposed school and a state school board that backs it have appealed a lower court’s ruling that blocked the establishment of St Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, Reuters reported. That court found that the proposed religious charter school would violate the US constitution’s first amendment limits on government involvement in religion.