Critics of charter schools worry that money funneled away from public schools hurts the majority of students.
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Let's set up a new trust fund for Social Security with a charter to invest the money solely to get a good return.
It means that we condition taxpayer dollars that are being provided to banks on them showing some restraint when it comes to executive compensation, not using the money to charter corporate jets when they're not necessary.
Likewise, I would not expect charter schools to use their money to line the pockets of overpaid school directors.
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And now, after more than a decade of disappointment, Allen is finally starting to make a little money off of Charter.
If charter schools were free to spend money on wages instead of pension benefits, they might be able to hire more and better teachers.
This includes money given to the Charter School Growth Fund, a non-profit venture capital fund, to which another billionaire, Gap co-founder Doris Fisher, has also contributed.
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But Ms. Weingarten's real concern is that Mr. Loeb puts his own money behind school reform and charter schools.
Wootton Bassett Town Council has confirmed that any surplus money raised through donations to the royal charter celebrations will be donated to various forces charities.
In fact, 73 of the Forbes 400 members are involved in education in some way, whether giving money to their alma maters or starting charter schools.
In an age when most investors are happy with base hits, he still hits home runs, making big money for his backers at companies like Charter Communications and AAT Communications.
More recently, Hall doubled his money on Skyjet, an Internet corporate jet charter service he sold to Bombardier in 2000.
Mr Lieberman's bill sounds many of the same notes as Mr Bush's, consolidating the 50 current federal programmes into five broad categories, offering states far more flexibility in how they spend their money in return for hitting broad performance targets and including penalties for schools that fail to spend their money wisely (such as being turned into charter schools).
The 1, 128 (and growing) charter schools are free to experiment with private management without losing public money.
All this money makes apples-to-apples comparisons between traditional public schools and charter schools very difficult.
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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.
Although charter schools claim to improve learning outcomes, studies have shown uneven results, even as the schools drain money from public schools.
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