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Before the meeting, Obama toured the Martin Luther King charter school -- the first charter school to reopen in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, the hardest-hit portion of the city.
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Martin attended the Neighborhood House Charter School, according to a school official.
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Mr. MARTIN: Well, having a charter school does give us a little bit more flexibility because now we're able to do some of the things that we were not able to do as a public school, given all of the bureaucracy that we had to run through.
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So I asked Steven Martin what had changed since King became a charter school.
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Mr. STEVEN MARTIN (Director of Board Development, King Charter School): And we're still to some degree opposed to charter schools, but after the city was let back open, we found out that the only game in town was charter schools.
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Mr. MARTIN: I can only speak for Dr. King Charter School, Tony, and for some of the principals that we know personally, who were committed before Katrina, who were committed during Katrina, and who are now committed after Katrina.
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But Sinn Fein's education minister Martin McGuinness accused Mr Trimble of embarking on a "wrecker's charter" instead of "coming out fighting for the Good Friday Agreement".
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Mr. MARTIN: Well, like for instance we fought with the state when we wrote our charter because they said we could not have direct instruction.
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