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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform. ↗

— Reed Hastings

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Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

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The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. ↗

— William Pitt

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To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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