That was clear when I gathered two moms and a dad in the cafeteria of the KIPP Believe College Prep School, a new charter school in New Orleans.

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Just a few miles from the slide which spurt Rob Wishon into a wave of sand is Pacheco Elementary School, a charter school in the college community of San Luis Obispo california specializing in a two way immersion program.

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In 1952, Fisk was the first predominantly black college to earn a Phi Beta Kappa charter.

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He dropped out of college to run a spring-break charter flight business.

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Take your pick: public school, private school, home school, charter schools, technical schools, college preps, ROTC academies, magnet programs, all-male, all-female, even online-only schools.

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Through the leadership and philanthropic investments of the Citi Foundation and our partners KIPP and UNCF we are helping thousands of students at KIPP charter schools in select cities open a college savings account.

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We want to learn from successful charter schools where students can take advanced and college-level courses.

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Kirk Kerkorian was an immigrant's son who never went to college but who parlayed his aviation experience during World War II into his own charter airline.

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Parents like Tori Willis, a widow who moved her 17-year-old son, Asante Sandiford, from a traditional Boston public school to City on a Hill charter school three years ago, are drawn to the focus on college preparation and manners.

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Ultimately, Kabban hopes to build a "peace-building" charter school for refugees, immigrants and marginalized youth that would use soccer in a formal college prep program.

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