The Czech underground rock band has a storied history: the group's 1976 arrest and prosecution helped motivate the playwright Vaclav Havel and other artists and intellectuals to form Charter 77, the human-rights-manifesto-cum-movement that laid the groundwork for the Velvet Revolution, more than a decade later.
Indeed, more than a decade earlier, Havel had helped form Charter 77, a human rights organization that aimed to make Czechoslovakia live up to the freedom-loving language of its constitution.
Mr. Bloomberg's predecessor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, was often criticized for hastily forming charter revision commissions and giving them only a summer to come up with proposals.
The LA Fund has joined forces with LA's Promise, a nonprofit that manages three district schools, to create LA Promise Fund, a new organization whose goals will include forming charter schools.
The party pointed to a standard government form for charter certification for parliament's presiding officers that says "office holders may use charter transport (including aircraft, helicopters and other vehicles) for their personal transport in connection with their office holder duties".
When Kennedy left Sarasota High to form a charter school, the Sarasota Military Academy, in 2001, he did not even consider having a valedictorian.
Their explanations varied: the teachers wanted respect, they opposed school reform, they feared the privatization of education (in the form of charter schools), they wanted to teach Mayor Rahm Emanuel a lesson.
Mr. Bush has argued that a conservative approach to education for 21st-century jobs would embrace more effective teacher evaluation and common core standards, but add a bigger element of choice in the form of charter schools and vouchers, the removal of union rules that limit new technology — and combine it all with greater autonomy and accountability for individual principals.
The film has caught the imagination of the business community because it represents a reckoning for public education and its chronic failures, making the very businesslike case that large school systems and the unions that go with them must be replaced by a customized, semi-privatized education in the form of charter schools.
Choice in the form of charter schools is struggling for political oxygen.
The drive to increase educational standards, increase scrutiny on teachers, and to open up public schools to non-government managers in the form of charter schools, has thrived as both Republicans and Democrats agree on elements of it.
