Word: charter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the U.N. Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco, it was not enforced until October 24th of the same year...
...President supports the creation of more charter schools, which are public schools free of some of the bureaucratic rules that might put a drag on classroom performance. It so happens that charter schools are also acceptable to teachers unions, important Democratic allies that oppose vouchers in part because the private schools they foster generally pay lower salaries than public systems. Democrats hope they can defeat any drift toward vouchers among blacks if they can just make plain the implications. A recent poll conducted by Gallup for Phi Delta Kappa, an international education fraternity, found that most citizens oppose vouchers when...
...will be two shuttle buses running in a continuous loop between the Office of Career Services, 54 Dunster Street, and the Gordon Track & Tennis Center and also Johnson Gate, Currier House and the GTTC between the hours of 9:45 and 4:30. The buses will be clearly marked Charter: Career Forum...
...lesson of the charter schools is that the marketplace, left to its own devices, tends towards entrepreneurial gimmickry. Charter schools are the slinkies and hoola hoops of the educational system. Here one is devoted to the study of the environment, there one is styled after a European academy. If charter schools do not lead to further balkanization of the nation, the New Republic's claim, it will certainly result in a generation of niche-educated boutiquey kids...
...problem with school choice is that it fails to explain how public schools will get better. It is the philosophy of "where there is a will, there is a way," without describing the way. It is embarrassed by the charter schools and vague in its promises. We are better off taking the concrete steps necessary to a better educational system. If we want to move up the ranks of the industrial nations in this regard, we cannot rest on our laurels and expect the invisible hand to do our dirty work...