Initially, the task forces' charters were short, only six months (the groups are still active today), and their mission was clear: to explore the issues, opportunities, and strategies affecting their constituencies and customers.
Some pilots and others argue that the crunch forces charters to cut corners on maintenance and pilot training and give in to fat-cat clients who demand that flights proceed even in unsafe weather.
Perhaps this case and others might force charter advocates to reflect on that original purpose.
She threw out a lawsuit that would have forced charter schools using public-school space to pay rent.
Galaxy Airlines, which won a United States Air Force charter contract while a Federal safety panel was still investigating a crash in Nevada that killed 70 people, is "deficient" as an air carrier, the chairman of a House investigations subcommittee said Tuesday.
Charter Communications Chairman Paul Allen Paul Allen had been trying for weeks to wrap up negotiations between his struggling cable outfit and Comcast, the biggest system in the U.S. The bone of contention: Thanks to Comcast's merger with AT&T, the former inherited the right to force Charter to buy an ownership stake in a cable JV between the two companies for $725 million.
But the plot gets as granular as agents lobbying Texas legislators to pass bills forcing charter schools in the state to be more transparent, according to a Justice Department filing from the end of May.
Previous proposals indicate that those politicians may force charters to divulge their finances, and could make it harder for charters to operate in public school buildings.
Most recently, a research task force chartered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pain Consortium described an outcome set for use in chronic LBP research centered on patient-reported outcomes and largely relying on the patient-reported outcome measurement information system (PROMIS) instrument (Deyo et al. 2014).
Although district officials insist they've been consistent and diligent, some pro- and anti-charter forces perceive a charter division that demands more from — and favors fewer — charters.
