Word: charter
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Rollins received a planning grant in 1991 from the National Endowment for the Arts to develop a charter school. He hopes to open the South Bronx Academy of Art soon...
Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, Joel Iacoomes, John Wampus, Eleazer and Benjamin Larnell were admitted to the College through The Harvard College Charter of 1650, later incorporated into the current Corporate Charter of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, which provided for the "education of the English and Indian youth of this country." This clause allowed the College to receive financial support from a missionary society and to found the Indian College with those funds...
According to a draft plan, the plaque will read, "Here American Indian and English students lived and studied in accordance with the 1650 Charter of Harvard College, which calls for 'the education of the English and Indian youth of this Country...
...Government would split the $5 billion cost. While dead set against using public money to send children to private school, the White House supports a form of school choice in which parents could shop among competing public schools. That means magnet schools, which offer enhanced programs, or the independent "charter" schools, now found in many states, which set their own rules in matters like what to teach and how to spend money, but are subject to government oversight and evaluation...
...Charter schools have been warily approved by the teachers unions that strongly support Bill Clinton. But the same unions furiously oppose private-school vouchers. For one thing, they fear that a privatized world would mean lower pay for teachers. In Catholic schools faculty salaries are sometimes 20% below those in surrounding public schools. Voucher opponents also argue that in a nation worried about the fraying of its common ties, public money for private instruction would bring on a patchwork of taxpayer-supported ideological enclaves--not just Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist, but schools arranged by black and white separatists...