Though charter schools and public schools are quite similar, both schools are quite different as well. Charter schools are independent, nonsectarian public schools, which are governed by not-for-profit Boards of Trustees. ... With charter being run on the high amount of accountability, charter schools received more freedom and flexibility from state governments in return (Finn, 2000, p. 128). ... While comparing charter schools to public schools, public schools are required by law to educate all children. ... Schools, public and charter, have the potentia...

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These tests will make the schools accountable for the performance of every student and the improvement of the school as a whole. ... Clinton-Gore budgets doubled investment in education and training by focusing on things that work, like charter schools, teacher quality, smaller class size. ... By means of a school-by-school basis report, the public will be informed about the safety statistics according to each school. Also in this policy, any student that is a victim of a violent crime at that school may transfer to a safer school. ... In the lower income school districts or the urban s...

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., Britain, China, France, and the Soviet Union signed the United Nations charter. ... As is defined in its charter, the UN aims to promote collective security throughout the world; advocate human rights and self-determination of peoples; achieve international co-operation in solving economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems; and function as a centre for co-ordination of all of these activities. ...

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On the other hand a pluralist would suggest that the boy could have his father intervene, telling the boys not too tease his son, and all would be well the next day at school. ... According to the Charter, the UN has four purposes: to maintain international peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations; to cooperate in solving international problems and in promoting respect for human rights; and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations ("How the UN"). ... The United Kingdom also concurs that "The Charter of the United Nations is a robust document. ...

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Schools, restaurants, social events and even water fountains were segregated - whites and blacks shared very little. ... This case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court which ruled in Meredith's favor stating that he had the right to be admitted to the state school. ... The governor of Mississippi strongly opposed him attending this school and even went as far as to have the state legislature pass a law prohibiting any person who was convicted of a state crime from admission to a state school. ... People drove in and arrived by bus from all parts of the country to take part in t...

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Charter, which required previous Security Council authorization,; and third, that in any case, the United States was not legally bound to respond with force. ... Charter, but also under the terms of the SEATO Treaty itself, the instrument under which it was pretending to be behaving lawfully...

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The establishment of an effective Judicial System in the United States of America has come with numerous challenges over the past centuries. What is thought of as "probably the most important and the most satisfactory Act ever passed by Congress," the Judiciary Act of 1789 created for the people a system of courts that would ensure the presence of justice in the new American society. The state of the nation at the time, however, would prove to be challenging for the few selected to hold judicial positions. The terms within the newly minted Constitution posed more questions than they answe...

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Just War For more than a thousand years Christian ethicists and theologians have used the language of just war theory to determine when it is morally acceptable for a Christian to go to war. The theory has been flexible enough to accommodate political, military, and social change, and still retain its relevance. There is no doubt in the minds of many that the issue of war and the Christian conscience has been a long-standing problem. When asked about war some would allude to the Just War Theory. Just war theorists trace the beginnings of the theory to Augustine's idea of normative...

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