• Since the storm, some schools have been open by the state, some by the local school board, and some by charter groups.

    NPR: A New School Year Begins in New Orleans

  • The federal government has sent millions of dollars to help jump-start charter schools in New Orleans, and the city is being watched closely by charter-school supporters nationwide.

    NPR: For Charter Schools, New Orleans Is Citywide Lab

  • It would be nice to believe that Labour's conversion to the cause of constitutional reform is a result of the intellectual force of the arguments advanced by Charter 88 and others.

    ECONOMIST: New Labour��s gurus: Redesigning Britain’s constitution | The

  • The dangers represented by charter schools are increasingly being recognized by experts, as demonstrated by the recent reversal of education expert Diane Ravitch, formerly a leading advocate of charter schools and now a fierce opponent.

    CNN: Why we protest education cuts

  • The full and effective implementation of United Nations activities to promote and protect human rights must reflect the high importance accorded to human rights by the Charter of the United Nations and the demands of the United Nations human rights activities, as mandated by Member States.

    UNESCO: Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

  • She has also departed from the fundamental Leveson principle of 'statutory underpinning' and proposes instead to proceed by a royal charter, thus by-passing the legislature, especially in relation to defining which publishers are to be regarded as 'significant'.

    BBC: Scotland politics

  • However Mr Cameron opposes the move and wants to establish a regulator by royal charter.

    BBC: David Jones

  • He highlighted what he called the "very important question" of who should be covered by the charter.

    BBC: Scotland politics

  • In 1999, Bachmann ran for a seat on the Stillwater school board, but, dogged by the charter-school debacle, she lost.

    NEWYORKER: Leap of Faith

  • In 1660, the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge was founded by Royal Charter of King Charles the Second.

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  • He added that this could delay the abolition of some of the quangos, as could the fact that some of them were protected by royal charter.

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  • Water fanatics can earn their living on the sea by working as charter boat captains.

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  • The only way to access its wonderfully undeveloped bays and beaches is by foot or charter boat.

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  • The newspapers opposed the idea of a regulator backed by a royal charter, and have revealed an alternative plan.

    BBC: Leveson report: Newspapers reject press regulation plans

  • White Swans are protected by a royal charter, but if the Swans go down it may just signal their extinction.

    BBC: Swans colourful history

  • Called TV Gateway, it started rolling out late last year in cable systems operated by Cox, Charter, Adelphia and Comcast.

    FORBES: Screen Grab

  • The ferries are protected by a Royal Charter and it would need an act of parliament to end the service.

    BBC: Mersey Ferries to be reviewed over ?1m yearly losses

  • He also alleged that Iran was in breach of the United Nations charter by sending its own Revolutionary Guards to Lebanon.

    ECONOMIST: Great Satan v axis of evil | The

  • Blending seaways with a range of hikes on three of the Whitsunday, islands (Hook, Whitsunday and South Molle), the trail has no single defined route, and is accessible at any point by private, charter or commercial boat.

    BBC: Kayaking Australia��s Whitsunday Islands

  • As I have said before, I do not believe that there is any basis in law for arguing that there is an implied condition of reasonableness which can be read into the power of veto conferred on the permanent members of the Security Council by the UN Charter.

    BBC: SERVICES

  • Verivo made the first move to position itself in the race for the next generation of software vendors by expanding its charter, the next step will be the right partnerships as well as convincing enterprises that its mobile application platform is the right choice to speed mobile app development.

    FORBES: The Mobile Pivot: Pyxis becomes Verivo Software

  • Parents should have a choice of schools for their children via vouchers and scholarships or by being allowed to create charter schools, whereby teachers and parents set up institutions unburdened by bureaucracy.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • By contrast, successful charter schools in America have occupied former shops, which the schools lease from commercial landlords.

    ECONOMIST: Free schools

  • The aircraft was operated by the Edinburgh Air Charter company and was taking the Airtours staff to Aberdeen to connect with a holiday flight to Majorca.

    BBC: Crash pilot 'took wrong action'

  • The aircraft was operated by the Edinburgh Air Charter company and was taking staff from Lancashire-based Airtours to Aberdeen to connect with a holiday flight to Majorca.

    BBC: Crash pilot 'took wrong action'

  • After all, it was only three years ago that Mr Chirac came out in favour of endorsing the regional-languages charter adopted by the Council of Europe in 1992.

    ECONOMIST: The French language

  • The U.S needs to exercise leadership among countries in the Hemisphere but making sure that the Democratic Charter signed by members of the Organization of American States (OAS) is implemented.

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  • Earlier this year the South Korean government went one step further when it set up a task force comprising of scientists and even a science fiction writer to draft a "Robot Ethics Charter" by April.

    CNN: The rights and wrongs of robots

  • The Scottish government did not endorse the expert panel's findings and are now trying to get the royal charter proposed by the leaders of the main UK parties amended to make it comply with Scots law.

    BBC: Scotland politics

  • Neither government nor Parliament runs the BBC even though MPs do vote every few years to preserve the BBC by renewing its Royal Charter and set the level of the licence fee whilst the government appoints the Chairman of the BBC Trust which does regulate it.

    BBC: UK Politics

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