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...history of the Harvard Corporation, formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, began with the creation of the Charter of 1650. It is the oldest incorporated board in the Western Hemisphere...
...Corporation’s size has endured ever since 1650. Its numbers have grown only once—15 men briefly sat on the Corporation during the tenure of Increase Mather, Class of 1656, when the Charter of 1650 was temporarily revoked...
Having been recently appointed a charter trustee at Andover, Mead also suggests future involvement in education and a renewed interest in photography...
...Tuesday, the SEC said that Edison had omitted crucial information from its filings, allowing it to report revenues from 1999 to 2002 that were 41% to 48% higher than it actually generated. The company had been counting teachers' salaries and other expenses paid by its client school districts and charter-school boards as revenue, even though none of the cash entered Edison's coffers. Because Edison also reported the funds as expenses, its bottom line was accurate, the sec said, and the reporting procedure did not violate generally accepted accounting rules. Still, the SEC said, Edison should have told investors...
...failed, compared with 20% citywide and 8% statewide. Edison spokesman Adam Tucker concedes that "none of us felt test scores were improving as quickly as they should" at Renaissance, but he says that a dual-management structure in which the school principal reported to both Edison and a local charter-school board was restricting. He says that Renaissance is an anomaly for Edison, which operates 136 schools serving 75,000 students in 22 states. According to Edison statistics, the average annual gain in test scores across its far-flung school system--4.2%--surpasses other districts of similar population size...