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...outside, Betsy Lueth's school looks like any other in this arty neighborhood of Minneapolis: a sprawling, boxy red brick building with plain steel doors. Yet inside, the blond, gregarious Minnesotan presides over an institution unique in the heartland: Yinghua Academy, a charter public school where elementary students of every ethnicity study subjects ranging from math to American history in Mandarin...
...former Assistant Treasury Secretary named William Duer capitalized on his government connections to make bets on the country's debt. His investments eventually soured, however, and Duer's bankruptcy brought down much of New York's economy in 1792; he died a few years later in debtors' prison. (The charter members of the Buttonwood Group, the predecessor of the New York Stock Exchange, first assembled to formulate a response to that market crash.) Nineteenth century railroad magnate Jay Gould didn't try to hide his flagrant insider trading; profits from buying and selling stock in his own companies helped make...
...Republican candidate run against the president. Christie, in fact, dropped the president’s name frequently, featuring clips of Obama’s most inspirational speeches in his ads and often portraying himself as an ally of Obama on education policy due to their agreement on charter schools and merit pay. After his election, Christie told a crowd in Woodbridge, N.J., that “It’s [his election] not a repudiation of the president. In fact, I said the exact opposite during the campaign,” and McDonnell did the same, saying that...
...president is also encouraging states to make establishing more publicly funded, non-unionized charter schools a priority in their grant applications. While not all charter schools have proven themselves better than traditional public schools, they are the laboratories in which to test innovative new models of education. Extensive experimentation is impossible in traditional public schools and is vital to solving the nation’s education woes. Race to the Top promises to forge an environment that will nourish and support the best of the charter schools rather than allow unions to stifle them...
Despite the vocal misgivings of its President, Vaclav Klaus, the Czech Republic became the last of 27 European Union member states to sign the Lisbon Treaty, removing the final hurdle for its passage. The charter, intended to consolidate and strengthen the E.U.'s governance, calls for Europe's first full-time President, a new foreign policy chief and a new voting system. It could go into effect as early...