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...president and Fellows make up the Harvard Corporation, which is invested with ultimate control over the University by colonial charter. This board approves appointments and oversees the allotment of millions of dollars in each year's operating budget...
...Schlesinger denied having knowledge of the break-in to the Democratic party offices and said he was outraged by the act. The event led Schlesinger to call for reports of any activities that went against the charter...
...choose not to become certified at all, you might find a job at a religious or an independent private school or at a charter school, as many do not require certification. "Compensating for the lower pay they offer," says Podgursky, "is the fact that teachers, who rate them more highly than public schools, have more control and influence on the curriculum...
Robert Winters, a longtime council observer and publisher of the online Cambridge Civic Journal, used the public comment period at the beginning of the meeting to criticize the wording of the agenda item. He called for councillors to enact a "charter right"--which would postpone discussion on the matter for a week...
...laughingstock of a police department into an impressive law-enforcement agency; it not only handled the recent protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund with aplomb but also arrested a teenage suspect in the zoo shooting only 24 hours after it happened. A burst of new charter schools is providing students with educational choices undreamed of a few years ago. "You get the sense that the city is really trying to meet its fundamental obligations," says Hugh Price, a native Washingtonian who heads the National Urban League...