Sentences with phrase «by private charter»

It's not uncommon, she said, to see owners arriving with guests, often flying in by private charter.

Situated in northern Queensland and accessible only by private charter from Cairns, Lizard Island is a National Park spanning more than 1, 000 hectares and home to 24 beautiful beaches, a turquoise lagoon and 40 luxurious guest suites and beach villas.

The deeper, outer reefs are approximately 75 mins from the lodge by boat and are accessible by private charter.

FBO clients arriving at Edinburgh Airport (EGPH) by Private Charter or Private Jet can be met at the arrivals area at Signature Business BBA Aviation Flight Support.

But now we are told, by right wing conservatives who despise social democracy, that public education is an evil and that the best thing for the poor is to get their children into a charter school, nominally public, but typically managed by a private charter school management company (backed by Wall St money).

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The global, mobile marketplace for private - jet chartering has changed its industry by rooting out efficiency.

Debt obligations issued by agencies of the U.S. federal government or by private agencies, called government - sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which are federally chartered, but publicly owned by their stockholders

Aerospace and aviation are by far the biggest segments of IMP, a conglomerate with revenue of more than $ 1 - billion a year from interests spanning charter airline CanJet and private aviation firm Innotech - Execaire Aviation Group.

Similarly, «In Europe, the first true circulating notes were issued in 1661 by Stockholms Banco, a private bank chartered by the crown.»

In the United States before the Civil War, the vast majority of paper currency was issued by private state - chartered banks.

In a PRIVATE club with membership and a charter you may conduct yourself as you see fit, but in a place of public accomadation run by an organization that takes public monies and pays no taxes that action would be considered at best unethical and at worst illegal.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

Yesterday, a private charter plane carried 149 Christian refugees from Kurdistan to Slovakia where they are receiving full asylum, made possible by a ton of donations totaling $ 12 million.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

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This is not the time to abandon our public schools - by undermining and helping to destroy them with private charter schools.

Also under the deal, if a new charter approved by the city includes a request for space inside existing city buildings, the city would have five - months to make a «reasonable» co-location offer or pay for private space, the sources said.

De Blasio's power over city schools has already been somewhat diminished by the new pro-charter state law dictating how the city must accommodate charters in both public and private space.

After achieving the passage of a new evaluation system that will rely on a mix on at least one standardized test and in - classroom observation, the governor is renewing his focus to areas NYSUT has opposed, including a lifting of the cap on charter schools and a $ 150 million education investment tax credit, which is strongly backed by private and parochial schools.

There will be upfront costs but by using a refitted RAF Voyager instead of chartering private aircraft for each long - distance trip, we will save taxpayers around # 775,000 a year.»

Mahoney accused Antonacci of violating the county charter and creating possible conflicts of interest by continuing to do accounting work for up to 80 private, unidentified clients.

Under the provisions of the education tax credit proposed by Cuomo, people and businesses can donate up to $ 1 million to a scholarship fund to send underprivileged children to private schools, or the publicly funded, but privately run, charter schools.

Members also hoped to prevent an attempt by Governor Andrew Cuomo to link the extension of mayoral control to his end - of - session agenda, which includes lifting a cap on charter schools and establishing a tax credit for donations to private schools.

Along with the power to resolve, say, the UFT's grievances — perhaps by crushing the charter - school movement — the WFP now has juice to impose indirect tax increases and other commerce - depressing restrictions on the private sector.

Questions on other topics include: the NYS Attorney General's investigation of the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee, whether de Blasio's pre-K initiative will include private and parochial schools, the «absent teacher reserve», a protest by Girls Prep supporters against de Blasio's expected charter school policies, performance of Administration for Children's Services and whether de Blasio plans to contact the St. Patrick's Day Parade committee to urge them to lift their exclusion of LGBT groups and organizations.

Eunic Ortiz, president of Stonewall, wrote, «Any school in NYC — public, private, charter, or otherwise — that face a serious threat will and do receive sufficient NYPD - appointed security that is funded by the city.

Under a 2014 law opposed by Mr. de Blasio and championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City is legally required to provide new charter schools free rent in public school buildings or pay for their rent in a private building.

The message was echoed by Families for Excellent Schools C.E.O. Jeremiah Kittredge, who said in a statement, «charter schools in private space... should absolutely receive fair funding for facilities.»

Current legislation guarantees new or growing charters co-located space in public school buildings or, failing that, private space funded by the city.

Another top rival of AQE is the charter school sector, backed by wealthy private donors who have been regular contributors to the governor and to legislators friendly to charter schools in the state Senate.

A few weeks later, Success» CEO Eva Moskowitz and her allies celebrated the passage of a sweeping pro-charter bill that guaranteed the continued growth of city charters by putting the city on the hook to site charters in public or private space.

The unions have been joined by several groups supportive of issues they've opposed, such as expansion of charter schools and a tax credit that would redirect money to private schools, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of lobbying reports submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and campaign finance disclosure reports submitted by state - level candidates and parties to the Board of Elections.

One Cuomo promise was «to break... the only remaining public monopoly,» referring to public schools and teachers unions, by promoting charter schools, private school tuition tax credits, and a new round of teacher evaluations based on Common Core - aligned high - stakes testing.

UFT lawyers argue that «while charter schools may receive some funding from private entities, they are overwhelmingly funded by public tax dollars and they are subject to the disclosure requirements applicable to government agencies under the New York state Freedom of Information Law.»

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that operate under an 1863 congressional charter to the National Academy of Sciences, signed by President Lincoln.

Students were from local public, private, charter and MESA program schools, and as described by CSNE Co-director of Education at SDSU, Sweta Sarkar, these students were motivated, sharp and eager to learn.

Before the Fall is the thrilling story of a down - on - his - luck painter named Scott Burroughs, who mysteriously ends up on a private plane chartered by an incredibly wealthy family — and after a tragic crash in the Atlantic Ocean, is one of just two survivors.

Founded by June Whitehead in 1989, our mission has always been connecting talented speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists and school psychologists with public, private and charter schools.

Undeterred by the weather forecast, Alex puts her can - do attitude into high gear and charters a private plane to get around the problem.

Traditional Waldorf schools are private, but the number of public schools inspired by Steiner's methods is growing, fueled in part by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act and the charter school movement.

As a result, a trend among private Catholic schools has emerged in some cities: Catholic schools have, in effect, «switched» their status by dropping the religious component and becoming public charter schools.

Macke Raymond, director of Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), and an expert on monopolies in the public and private sectors, made this clear at a 2006 forum organized by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Trump's conception, now reinforced by the DeVos appointment, promotes choice, broadly construed, to authorize charter schools, vouchers and opportunity scholarships including public, private, for profit, and maybe even religious schools.

And by the end of the legislative session, he got just about everything he wanted in a school reform plan: expansion of charter schools, private school vouchers, and college scholarships for students who graduate high school early.

School districts that already had higher fractions of students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in charters.

School communications in the charter sector are also perceived by parents to be more extensive than those in the private sector.

Parents have exercised choice in selecting a charter or private - sector school rather than a district school, making it impossible to say whether parental perceptions of the school are caused by actual school characteristics in each sector or some other factor.

The federal tax credit proposal is one of several ideas under review by the White House to fulfill Donald Trump's campaign promise to promote the expansion of charter schools and vouchers that would allow families of low income to use public money for private school tuition, sources tell POLITICO.

This study, and the companion study by Cheng and Peterson, nonetheless provide the first descriptive accounts of differences in perceptions across the charter, district, and private sectors.