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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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.
He serves as co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Coney Island Prep, the first charter school in his native Coney Island, Brooklyn, and has been actively involved with the East Harlem School at Exodus House for over a decade.
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And, by god, before the first private charter school company steps into the buildings of the taken over Indianapolis schools, the district itself is improving its other schools.
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The first direct charter flight for two years left Miami for Cuba .
This bill just happens to be in the House of Commons right now so that bit will be considered first by MPs, not peers who will look at the royal charter first.
It is the first time the self-defense charter has been invoked in the 52-year history of the alliance.
In 1945, Nicaragua became the first nation to formally accept the United Nations Charter.
The court has spent an unhurried three-and-a-half years pondering this, since Spain's opposition People's Party first challenged the charter.
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The Preston Guild dates back to 1179 when King Henry II granted the town the right to have a Guild Merchant and gave the town its first royal charter.
The charter, the first of its type applied to cancer patients, urges doctors to attempt to close the gaps in treatment between rich and poor countries, strengthening cooperation between scientists in different countries.
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.
ERC's scientific strategy (Dr Nowotny is one of them) met for the first time to start hammering out a charter and constitution.
Magna Carta is a charter which, for the first time, detailed written constraints on royal authority in the fields of church rights, taxation, feudal rights and justice.
Only a few months ago ASEAN leaders were talking about setting up a regional human-rights body and adopting a strong new charter that would, for the first time, impose binding decisions on member countries and sanctions against wayward ones.
The new director general's first priority will be to prepare the BBC for the review of its Royal Charter.
As for problems with charter flights, tour operators are the first port of call with complaints.
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.
In 1952, Fisk was the first predominantly black college to earn a Phi Beta Kappa charter.
Frequent charter flights began in July, but Monday marked the first formal service in nearly 60 years.
He serves as the chairman of the board of Success Academies Charter Schools in Brooklyn, helps lead Students First New York.
First thing that following Monday, I was in his office with the dead charter school application.
For the first time, officials are moving to shut down an entire New York City charter-school network.
Everyone recognised there might have to be exceptions to this rule, but the Charter specifically does not authorize preemptive nor preventative action(i.e. getting in first) on the basis of a perceived future threat.
Middle Temple hosted the first performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 1602, and in 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh received a charter here from Elizabeth I to establish the colony of Virginia in North America.
On Monday, the Queen made her first official public appearance in more than a week at a Marlborough House reception, where she signed the new Commonwealth charter.
In 2010, the school ranked first in its county in student performance in math and reading and ranked among the top 10 percent of all Arizona charter schools.
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