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This week, the telecom giant provided more details about its plans for the 5G home service, which is likely to compete head on with cable giants like Comcast, Charter Communications (chtr) and Altice (atus).

For a few hundred more dollars, you can do a custom charter flight to a destination of your choice, and you can even choose to fly on a faster aircraft if you'd like.

In what may be the clearest sign that Morrison is intent on doing more than «putting the barn on the package,» she backed Plum's decision in 2013 to become a public benefit corporation, which codifies the business's social and environmental purpose in its charter.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Monday moved to approve Charter Communications» $ 65.5 billion acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, enabling the creation of a new cable giant as the industry focuses more on broadband as traditional TV declines.

(Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who, like Price, spent more than $ 1 million on military and charter travel, still has a job too.)

For more information on these requirements, see «-- Our corporate charter and bylaws include provisions limiting voting by non-U.S. citizens and specifying an exclusive forum for stockholder disputes.»

The two most relevant regulations were: 1) the prohibition on interstate banking, which created overly small and undiversified banks that were highly prone to failure; and 2) the requirement that federally chartered banks back their currency with purchases of US government bonds, which made it prohibitively expensive to issue more currency when the demand rose, leading to the currency shortages and resulting panics that culminated in the Panic of 1907.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

Following the news that his church will offer gay marriages, Steve Chalke has launched an «Open Church Charter» which calls on all churches to... More

The Earth Charter is the project of a loose group of NGOs who hoped to use their accreditation to the 1992 UN «Conference on Environment and Development» at Rio de Janeiro (the «Earth Summit») to get a document containing some more radical environmental views on the formal agenda and, if possible, adopted.

Meanwhile, a group of 160 African - American community leaders sent NAACP a letter detailing their own objections to its charter - school opposition on behalf of «700,000 black families choosing to send their children to charter public schools, and the tens of thousands more who are still on waiting lists.»

but the most important part is the belief that we are all connected on a deeper level and that our bodies are just instruments helping us charter through this plethora of interactions (between the like) called «life» More like Buddhism with out Budha.

In 1970, one year after the school was kicked out of the Mid-American Conference as punishment for more than 100 NCAA violations, a chartered plane carrying 75 players, coaches, fans, university employees and crew crashed, killing all on board.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

«It is difficult when the charter school lobbyists have spent more than $ 5 million on a TV and radio advertising campaign.

NYSUT was opposed to the tax credit, but the labor union had its hands full on other key issues, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to once again overhaul teacher evaluations, weaken teacher tenure laws and strengthen charter schools in addition to the perennial push for more school aid.

NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson is supporting a bill that would create a commission to take on more extensive charter review, parallel to a commission proposed by the mayor in his State of the City address.

On a rolling year basis, there were 1.8 % more scheduled flights and 2.5 % fewer charter flights across all UK airports.

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Hedge Clippers also is not calling on charter schools, which are more associated with conservative causes, to return donations they have received from Loeb.

«More than 85 public charter schools from across the state will be in Albany on Tuesday.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

Additionally, Szukala implemented the Erie County Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Tip Line, which has responded to more than 300 anonymous tips from taxpayers since 2008, and has acted as Secretary to the Erie County Audit Committee, the Charter - mandated board tasked with selecting the County's external auditor and reporting on the implementation of recommendations.

«No more co-locations; we absolutely can not lift the cap on charters,» she said.

Cuomo is linking up to $ 1.1 billion in new spending for education to enacting a number of his education reform proposals, including lifting the cap on charter schools and a new, more stringent teacher evaluation process.

«Charters have to be more accountable on everything from admissions and enrollment to discipline and finances.

But the governor is not supported among the more activist side of the WFP, which includes chairs like Karen Scharff of Citizen Action who remain restive over his stances on taxes, charter schools and other middle - of - the - road priorities.

The proposed law would amend the Erie County Charter to require that goods purchased by the county that cost more than $ 10,000 be manufactured in the U.S. and all contracts for services for more than $ 10,000 are made with entities in the U.S. Morton said he has not given up on the issue and continues to pursue a compromise.

Senate Democrats, while hobbled by a mere one - vote majority, could barely contain their glee at Cuomo's strong support for some of their most favored positions: more charter schools, a tough cap on state spending and local property taxes, and opposition to a massive new borrowing scheme — all counter to Silver's positions.

While serving on the Westchester County Charter Commission, charged with improving county government, Killian missed more than half of the meetings and skipped more than 80 percent of votes taken.

That pits him against Governor Andrew Cuomo on yet another education issue; the governor has said he hopes to break the public - school «monopoly» by encouraging more competition from charter schools.

And pundits told Kramer the last thing Albany needs right now is more chaos, especially since high stakes debates on such issues such as increasing the minimum wage and raising the cap on charter schools must be resolved before the session ends in June.

Merriman is counting on the Republican - controlled state Senate to block passage of the mayoral - control extension unless the Assembly agrees to more charters.

With the exception of the appointment of department heads, none of whom have been challenged by the legislature in more than five years of charter government, Hein has virtually unlimited authority on hirings and firings.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

«It may be dressed up in academic think - tank language, but this is no more than a crude attack on basic workplace rights and a charter for bad bosses everywhere,» she said, dredging up the spectre of Margaret Thatcher's premiership and telling the authors to «get out more».

Though he has been light on details, Trump is pushing an agenda that includes more charter schools and a voucher system for students who want to attend private schools.

Now, those leaders are beginning to craft their legislative priorities, which will include eliminating the state's cap on charter schools, increasing funding for established charters, and establishing more accountability measures for district schools and teachers.

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For a start, as editors know well, Miller played no more than a walk - on role in the decision to create a royal charter to underpin press regulation.

You may recall that more than a decade ago, felonious former Gov. John G. Rowland came to grief and went off to prison the first time for exchanging favors for charter jet flights and going with a group on a Las Vegas junket, some of whose members had a reported rendezvous with Las Vegas prostitutes.

ALBANY — After years as a pro-charter school operative, Democratic state Senate candidate Micah Lasher is adopting a more union - friendly attitude on education issues, vowing in his campaign literature to «ensure that charter schools have to play by the same rules.»

City Council President - elect Carmella Mantello in a letter to the council called for delaying the final budget adoption vote until Dec. 1, the deadline set in the city charter, to provide more time to work on the budget.

Among the questions spurred by Andrew Cuomo's newfound devotion to charter schools is one with real implications for the governor's re-election: How much more can the Working Families Party take before ditching him and running someone else on its line this year?

And by not picking a battle with Cuomo over mayoral control, the Assembly and de Blasio may have more leverage on issues like the tax credit, and, of particular interest to de Blasio, the charter cap.

The measure, criticised by civil liberty campaigners as a «snooper's charter», has been taken out of a more general Home Office and Ministry of Justice - sponsored crime and courts bill, which ministers need to get on to the statute book as fast as possible.

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, anCharter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, ancharter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver threw down the gauntlet on expanding charter schools Tuesday, saying there's no reason to add more despite the clamor of parents and education reformers.