This year, 59% of charter schools in the state were Level One, compared with 31% of non-charter schools.
NetJets Inc. also offers aircraft management, charter management, and on-demand charter services through its subsidiary, Executive Jet Management.
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With a busy charter yacht completing approximately 10 weeks of charter a season.
You could, of course, write a corporate charter that would allow for plebiscites, but changing the charter would demand action by the directors.
Now just because I started a charter school doesn't mean I think charter schools are necessarily better than other public schools.
While many of the charter schools and charter organizations are making huge improvements in traditional outcomes for students, most are not new or different.
StoneRidge stems from an agreement that Charter Communications, a cable company, had with two vendors, Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta, which supplied Charter with cable boxes.
Charter schools and high-stakes testing are largely advocated by the same people, and high-stakes testing is often part of the charter school evaluation process.
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The conference aimed to translate into action the principles of the International Charter of Physical Education and Sport, the Olympic Charter and other international instruments.
And GOPAC charter members, at one of its charter meetings, developed some of the messages that would be used in the course and used for GOPAC.
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.
The beauty of a public charter school lies in its great autonomy and self-determination -- this is what drew me to charter schools in the first place.
Of the approximately 5, 000 charter schools nationwide, only about 20% are in the suburbs, while 51% are in urban areas, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
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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On a busy and successful charter yacht you can hope to make tips of around 5 to 15% of the cost of the charter per week divided amongst the crew.
These are either licensed resellers of unused fractional shares, or they are charter brokers who make arrangements with charter companies who sell blocks of time to them, at a discounted rate.
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Since the first charter opened 16 years ago, models of success have emerged across the charter landscape--despite enormous hurdles well beyond the typical market challenges that most disruptive technologies must overcome.
Mr Gove is sounding keener on American-style Charter schools than on the Swedish model, in part because the Charter programme has a clearer record of helping to transform education for the poor.
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.
The government says the US Charter schools movement is closer to its free school programme and that in Chicago and New York, Charter schools have helped close the achievement gap between rich and poor students.
Instead of having just two kinds of schools, public or private, America will have a palette of choice, including voucher-redeeming public schools, voucher-redeeming private or parochial ones, quasi-public charter schools, quasi-private charter schools and home learning.
He also serves on the boards of the Kipp Charter School and the Rocketship Charter School networks, as well as the nonprofit Charter School Growth Fund, which invests in innovative charter school networks.
Nationally, charter schools are educating more than 2.3 million students in the 2012-13 school year, 275, 000 more than last year, the largest single-year jump since the movement began 20 years ago, according to the National Alliance for Charter Schools.
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.
He said this charter was about "empowering tenants" and "empowering the government" so it could see public money was having the right effect and the resources would be directed at those who meet "the obligations and responsibilities" that the charter outlines.
Three other men, Anthony Francis, 30, who at the time was living in Charter Place, Watford, Matthew Seddon, 28, also of Charter Place, Watford, and Alex Myers, 21, of Dumfries Street in Luton were all found not guilty of conspiracy to murder.
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But as the charter movement expands, and more middle-class parents become disenchanted with local public schools, charter operators have pushed to open schools in middle-income and suburban communities, triggering battles in such places as New Jersey and New York similar to that seen in Nashville.
But I also deeply believe in those principles that are contained not just in the OAS charter, but in the United Nations charter -- that respect for individuals, respect for rule of law, respect for human rights that I think is part of the reason that we're seeing an incredible transformation here in Colombia.
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In a particularly cringe-inducing exchange captured on film, Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo of the Bronx accuses Ms. Moskowitz of lying when the charter school leader talks about being a parent in Harlem (the neighborhood where she grew up, where she attended public school, and where she is raising her children, who attend the charter).
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