At another point, he met Michael Johnston, the former charter-school principal who is now the Colorado state senator who helped push through one of the nation's most aggressive testing schemes for teacher evaluations.
Today the company is announcing that its brought on board former charter jet exec Greg Johnson as its COO and Cory Jones as its VP of marketing.
"Eastern Long Island is still on propane," said Jim Donofrio, a former charter boat captain and executive director of the Recreational Fishing Alliance, one of many groups in the region that are reviewing the proposal.
As a former charter parent who's fought to save one (and written on it), my feelings on charters are complex--but ultimately oppose the histrionics of people like Eva Moskowitz, CEO of a powerful charter chain, Success Academies, which also attacked de Blasio when he only approved 14 of 17 charters.
They lie outside the normal school hierarchy, reporting not to LISs but directly to Eric Nadelstern, the part-time head of the pilot programme at the DoE and a former charter-school principal.
Rana Talwar, the former Standard Chartered head, praises Mr. Gupta's "charisma, leadership qualities and impeccable reputation".
The former republic chartered the private universities Baylor University,, and Southwestern University.
The entrepreneurs, both 31, are former charter-school teachers who practiced meditation in India and taught at meditation retreats in the United States.
The former chancellor's charter for budget responsibility was a poorly conceived measure.
After her seizure and refitting, the former liner was chartered to the United States Army as USAT Iroquois.
It does not help that the former mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, gave charter revision a bad name.
