In 1947, Hartford voters, following a trend in many other Northeast cities, approved altering the city's charter to create a position of city manager and make the mayor's post largely ceremonial.
In recent years, it has gotten easier for charter schools to create deliberately diverse classrooms.
Is it time to create "charter armies", "charter air forces," and "charter navies"?
Although his agency is implicated in frog decline, now his charter is to create "a biodiversity management plan where we can maintain frog habitat and implement frog recovery".
The goal, according to the Rolling Jubilee's charter, is to create broad resistance to the debt system, "with the ultimate goal of creating an alternative economy that benefits us all and not just the 1%." On a recent Friday, the Rolling Jubilee celebrated its anniversary in the basement of the Church of St .Luke and St. Matthew (the patron saints of artists and bankers, respectively) in Brooklyn.
In April, the five City Council Democrats unanimously amended the Long Beach city charter to formally create the post of operations director, already held by Eugene Cammarato, the local Democratic leader.
The agency's charter directs WMATA to create a unified regional transit system by coordinating other public and private agencies within its jurisdiction.
And in June it received a $22 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create charter schools in California, New York and other districts with great needs.
Jonathan Gyurko, a leader in the department's efforts to create charter schools, announced recently that he was stepping down.
Latino leaders, meanwhile, embraced the schools more slowly, and few community organizations that catered to Hispanics rushed to create charter schools.
