The Mormons charter more than 26,000 Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops, Mr. Shields said -- more than any group in the country.
The AU Epsilon Iota chapter of Alpha Tau Omega lost its charter more than a decade ago due to misconduct involving hazing and alcohol abuse.
The Framers of our Constitution wisely included a process by which the document could be amended, a reason that the Constitution has endured as our Nation's governing charter more than two centuries after it was first written.
Mr. Draghi provided another example Thursday of how he has been willing to interpret the central bank's charter more flexibly than his predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet, a habit that has pleased investors.
By buying Time Warner, the St Louis-based Fortune 500 company would expand to about 16.9 million US cable subscribers, giving the new entity, which would be called New Charter, more subscribers than all the other major private cable companies combined, save Comcast and its 22.4 million subscribers.
In Arizona, which has 422 charters -- more than any other state -- nearly 10percentt of the schools have failed.
Of the nation's 88,000 public schools, 3,000 are charters, educating more than 600,000 students.
At the same time, the dropout rate among students at Texas charters is more than three times the rate for other public school children.
CHICAGO — Teachers at the largest network of charter schools in Chicago are celebrating their historic win: In the first ever strike at a charter school, more than 500 teachers walked out of their classrooms earlier this month to demand better conditions for both themselves and their students.
Thanks in part to Ms Weingarten, New York now requires that if a charter has more than 250 students before its third year, its teachers must unionise.Eva Moskowitz, who runs four charter schools in Harlem and is a former city councillor, doubts Ms Weingarten's commitment to accountability.
A "moral charter" is more than a party platform.
