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...built a charter school in Las Vegas. Have you given any thought to teaching...
...necessarily ambiguous document. It was agreed only with the approval of the Israeli and Lebanese governments, and the U.N. force serves at the invitation of the Lebanese government, a coalition of which Hizballah is a part. The international mission falls largely under Chapter 6 of the U.N. Charter, meaning its participants can only use weapons in self-defense. "The problem for this force is it's going to be there with the consent of Hizballah, essentially," says Tim Williams of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. France's hesitancy could compel...
...Orleans school system, which was widely viewed as among the nation's worst before Katrina, has undergone a complete overhaul since the hurricane raked the city and flooded two-thirds of its 128 public schools. The city's new blend of state- and city-run districts, with charter schools making up 60% of the city's educational system, is unique in the country, according to Tulane University President Scott S. Cowen, who chaired the education committee of the Bring New Orleans Back Commission...
...addition to five city schools that opened on Tuesday, 17 schools taken over by the state, collectively called the Recovery School District, are slated to open next month. The other 34 are charter schools - some overseen by the city, some by the state - which began opening last week. In all, 56 schools are scheduled to be open in New Orleans by September's end, for up to 34,000 students. If that capacity is reached, the student body will be roughly half the size it was before Katrina...
...that some complaints about the Borroloola Inn were not investigated for months after a licensing inspector failed to forward e-mails. But she blames most delays on an unwieldy Liquor Act (which is to be rewritten at the end of the year) and Borroloola's remoteness. "We have to charter a plane to get there," she says. As for the convoluted process for dealing with complaints, "We do need to have a fair system,'' she says...