Top 261 Charter Quotes & Sayings

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.

In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people. I've even talked to people who didn't necessarily go into teaching thinking they wanted to work at a charter school or even may have been considered critics of the charter school movement, and found that it was the only way for them to get their foot in the door. So young people just have much more familiarity with the concept.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.

Every school, including voucher and charter schools, must be held to strict accountability standards.

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

The federal court has not commented on niqab as being a violation of any putative Charter right, but rather has said that the court believes that the policy ought to be anchored in legislation or regulation as opposed to an administrative order from the Minister. We disagree with that. But this is not a Charter ruling.

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Zimbabwe is an unusual case study in African colonialism in that it was invaded by a private company under Royal Charter.

The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn't just a villain's charter.

Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.

Most charter schools admit students by random lottery, making it impossible for them to pick only the best.

If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

I've never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids.

Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.

Charter hired me - which, to be honest, took some humility on its part, since I have helped lead public campaigns against cable companies like Charter - to advise it in crafting its commitment to network neutrality.

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

We can understand that people, seeing this anti-charter slander by certain media, end up thinking ‘Oh God, am I right to support the charter? Am I a good person?’ Well, yes, you are a good person, ladies and gentlemen, you’re part of the majority of people who want a charter.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

A lot of charter schools are non-union schools that take a lot of teachers from alternative tracks, like Teach For America. They do this in part because a lot of charter schools have very strong ideologies around how they want teachers to teach. And they find that starting with a younger or more inexperienced teacher allows them to more effectively inculcate those ideas.

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.

Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.

I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what got me my start. I do everything I can to keep it alive since it made me feel like I had something to give to the world. I also support the Segue Institute for Learning, a charter school in Central Falls run by a friend of mine that my niece attends. I'm committed to that because of its proven results. They have the highest math scores of any charter school in Rhode Island.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

I expect there will be more public charter schools.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

I think we should follow the Olympic charter and the guidelines as the whole world is following it.

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling

Nothing dramatic can be expected from the Sports Code, because the Olympic Charter has to be respected.

The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

I would argue that the charter schools are really good at building programming and curriculum around the issues and the interests of the kids that they serve.

After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.

As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.

When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in particular gave a new charter to biochemical thought, and with the discovery of vitamins that charter was extended.

I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government.

Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.

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

I've seen public charter schools give parents a valuable option for students in Alabama and across the country.

Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history.

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.