On their advice, Biddle applied for a new charter even though the old charter did not expire until 1836.
The application says that the families served by the New Brunswick schools, which are predominantly black and Hispanic, support the Hebrew charter, even though school leaders and the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter do not.
In 2015, for instance, Apple filed its own opposition to the UK's Investigatory Powers bill (also known as the Snooper's Charter) even though Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo had all joined forces to oppose it.
Labour said it could vote for the charter even though it only supported eliminating the current deficit "as soon as possible in the next parliament", rather than within the years.
Nearly all the other board members are widely regarded as pro-charter, even though their backgrounds are diverse.
San Diego's High Tech High broke even last year on $2.6 million in revenue, even though, as a charter school, it only gets 73% of the average $8,100 per pupil of taxpayer money that San Diego public high schools get.
According to Chicago Business magazine, parents have been calling charter schools, desperate to get their children in a classroom, any classroom, as soon as possible, even though, as "Waiting for 'Superman,' " the flawed pro-charter movie, showed, the most sought-after charters are oversubscribed, with long waiting lists established well before the beginning of September.
So for all intents and purposes, Mississippi does not have public charters schools even though they are not outlawed.
The tax has existed for decades, but since 2009, the authorities have tightened up on collection, to catch both expatriates living on their boats in the myriad marinas dotting the length of the Spanish coast and the Spanish owners of yachts who register them under foreign flags as charter vessels, even though they never put them out to charter.
But the boldest proposal is expanding access to charter schools — even though your editorial says that only about one in six charter schools in a recent study outperformed public schools.
