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...walls are graffiti-free, test scores have increased dramatically, and packages are presumably being delivered on time. If this sounds like an entirely different school, that's because it basically is. In fall 2006, the School District of Philadelphia gave the building over to Mastery, a local operator of charter schools - that is, ones that are publicly funded but privately managed. The adults left, the kids remained, and the once failing school has been turned around...
...could always use additional funds, and while we laud the president’s ongoing crusade to expand the availability of higher education to low-income students, we reiterate our belief that fundamental reform is needed to rectify the unforgivably inadequacies of American education. Such reforms include expanding charter schools in order to encourage innovation, instituting merit-based pay for teachers in order to incentivize excellence, and raising teacher salaries to attract the best-qualified candidates to the teaching profession. The president’s Race to the Top program, which provides monetary incentives to states that embrace charter schools...
...most potent mechanism for equipping American workers to compete in a global economy. We remain optimistic about actions at both the federal and state level that demonstrate our elected officials’ understanding of the primacy of education. Massachusetts, for example, recently passed a bill doubling the number of charter schools and expanding the powers of superintendents to overhaul failing schools. Even in the face of soaring deficits, it is essential for education programs to be the very last budget items to receive cuts, for education is the very foundation of any nation’s economy...
...April 2009, Van and nine other female jumpers sued the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) for violating the ban on gender discrimination in Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that although the IOC's decision did qualify as gender discrimination, as an international organization, it was not required to obey Canada's laws; also, that VANOC had no authority to tell them which sports they could and could not include. "I don't know about that," says Lamb. "Ladies' bobsled got into [the 2002 Olympics in] Salt Lake because enough people on the organizing...
...conviction preceded the ruling on Thursday by a Beijing court confirming the Christmas Day 2009 sentencing of Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic who was a chief author of Charter 08, a document that called for the Chinese government to uphold many of the values enshrined in the country's constitution. Like Tan, Liu was convicted of "inciting subversion of state power." Human-rights activists say Liu's 11-year sentence is exceptionally long, and the verdict has prompted an international outcry. U.S. Ambassador to China Jon M. Huntsman Jr. called on the government to release the 54-year-old scholar...