The principal, Doris Roche-Hicks, had made no secret of her prior opposition to charter schools.
The Obama administration says it fully supports school choice, but that is limited to charter and magnet schools.
Conversely, I need to charter a helicopter, three ferry boats and a space shuttle to play a round of golf.
And we'll encourage states to take a better approach when it comes to charter schools and other innovative public schools.
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After Hurricane Katrina, the state's "recovery district" took control of most of the city's schools and converted many to charter schools.
Last week, the Camden Board of Education agreed to let a nonprofit organization open a group of schools similar to charter schools.
Blue Star is a broker between people who want to charter a plane or helicopter and owners or managers of some 4, 000 aircraft.
Detroit Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb announced last month that he was closing eight schools, and selling up to 45 more to charter companies.
The system was turned over to charter operators, who got the leeway to hire new teachers and have been held accountable by strong schools commissioners.
Tented transit camps are being set up hurriedly on the Tunisian side, while frantic efforts are being made to charter aircraft and ships to repatriate the stranded.
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.
That's why I got turned on to charter schools.
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Rob Dore, owner of Private Jet Hire, said Mr Mills had made an enquiry with the firm to charter a plane from Doncaster Robin Hood Airport to Exeter but no booking was taken.
He also stressed the need for education reform -- offering parents a choice to send their children to charter schools, "which is a great benefit to inner city kids trapped in underperforming schools, " Romney said.
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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.
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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.
If those same schools do not register significant improvement after three years, however, they stand to see much of their federal money stripped away and given to parents, who could choose to have their children tutored, or send them to charter schools or to better-performing public facilities.
The government passed an amendment to the charter to allow the Fed to purchase Treasury Bonds.
Even before its amendments to the charter are put to a vote, the government has taken steps to encourage family counseling programs.
"They should have notified all the parents, " said Grisalda Tavarez, whose 10th-grade daughter transferred to Williamsburg Charter High School to escape violence in her previous public school.
The participants committed to promote the Charter to their governments.
He admits that trade unions had hoped to use the charter to attack the Thatcher labour laws, such as one barring secondary picketing, but says that is now impossible.
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They agreed to sign up to a charter condemning violence and committed to dialogue as a way to end the crisis.
If the Privy Council wanted to make changes to the charter it would not have to get the approval of the leaders of the three main political parties.
The prime minister has indicated that he would want to take the royal charter to the Privy Council in May.
This campaign is a call for action to young women and men to encourage their governments to ratify the Charter and to implement it.
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