Word: charter
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...thrown down the gauntlet and the Democrats will have to address the debate on his terms. Will the public be treated to a substantial debate on the merits of testing and funding based on performance as well as other contentious issues such as the use of vouchers and charter schools...
...York City voters dealt a stinging rebuke to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose proposed sweeping revisions to the city charter lost by a margin of 3 to 1. The mayor's opponents characterized his proposed revisions as a power play, designed to strengthen City Hall's control over a wide array of programs and initiatives. As Giuliani conceded defeat, his Democratic foes were making gleeful predictions of the vote's effect on next year's Senate race, which is expected to pit the mayor against brand-new New Yorker Hillary Clinton...
Part of my goal is to be at the fore-front of not just charter schools, but schools," Birkett says...
...There is no such animal [like bureacracy] with charter schools," he says...
...Based on this year's Iowa Reading Test Scores, the Benjamin Banneker Charter School has finally completed what it set out to do three years ago...to meet the educational needs of minority, low-income, and disadvantaged students in Cambridge," reads the school annual report...