Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

My father was a person who always allowed me to do what I wanted but he told me you want to go to a stock market, first get yourself qualified. So, I qualified myself as a chartered accountant and my dad said what do you want to do? I said I want to go to the stock market. He asked what will you do? I said I invest.

Indian Businessman

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.

American Author

Randi Weingarten

The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

American Activist

Rachel Campos-Duffy

Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels - and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they've been tried.

American Entertainer

Jagmeet Singh

My belief in human rights includes a fundamental principle that is written into Article 1 of the UN Charter: respect for equal rights and self-determination.

Canadian Lawyer

Cynthia Rowley

I've always wanted to do something in the food and beverage world. Part of my MO is to go into unchartered territory. I enjoy a challenge.

American Designer

Jonathan Kozol

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

American Writer

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

American Politician

Chuck Zito

There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.

American Celebrity

Andrew Cuomo

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

Charters often have historical significance, forming foundations of laws or institutions.

Historical Importance

Charters can be foundational, outlining principles and governance for organizations.

Foundational Document

A charter is legally binding, holding parties to their agreements.

Legal Binding

Chartering ensures private, exclusive use of a vehicle for a group.

Private Use

Chartering is common for group travels, offering control over the itinerary.

Group Travel

A charter trip is exclusive, not shared with the general public.

Exclusive Trip

Charter trips can be customized, catering to the party's preferences.

Customized Experience

Charter can imply specialized services like education in charter schools.

Specialized Services

Charter entities may operate autonomously within certain frameworks.

Autonomous Operation

 You know, people tell me, "Yeah, those charter schools, a lot of them don't work." A lot of them don't. They should be closed. I mean, I really believe they should be closed. But we can't confuse figuring out the science and things not working with we shouldn't therefore do anything. Right? Because that's not the way the world works.

Our failing schools....

 broken radiator in our hallway, those parts of the house that we always say we're going to get to next week, they're devaluing our whole property. Instead of constantly looking away to solutions like privatization or the charter school movement to solve our problems, why don't we take a deeper look at public education,

The "opportunity gap" in...

 You'll need to attract firms, who will come hire the people who move there first. And you'll need to attract families, the residents who will come and live there permanently, raise their children, get an education for their children, and get their first job. With that charter, people will move there.

Paul Romer: Why the...

 into crude and sometimes comic stories. The clergy intended to teach against immorality. How ironic, then, that the morality plays actually encouraged vices as more popular than virtues. By the mid-15th century, the church started to outlaw these performances. Town charters required that any theater

The emergence of drama...

 and, in fact, what we need is a lot more variety. So in the US there's a form of public school called charter public schools, that are run by nonprofits. And that's the big emphasis for me, is if you can have schools run by nonprofits, they are more mission-focused, they support the educators well.

How Netflix changed...

 - If I was an explorer, I wouldn't care about getting dirty. - I would take my findings back to the lab- - To build things, create new things. - To be an explorer is all about understanding this world better. - To show the world a different way of seeing. - To venture into unchartered territory.

Earth Day Eve 2021 PIPE...

 because I think what people are talking about is that there was a world where you had fewer journalistic outlets, where there were traditions, that things were fact-checked. It was incorporated into the charter of those organizations that the truth mattered.

Nationalism vs....

 canceled and to solve the problem he got on the phone called around chartered a plane sold tickets to the other stranded passengers and actually ended up making a profit the light went on I could start an airline and the idea for Virgin Atlantic was born

4 simple ways to have a...

 began with a chartered flight to a remote community and then a good part of a day on a dirt track in a four-wheel drive vehicle. Not really out of the ordinary if you are trying to get to anywhere in the world remote. It's a lot of logistics

Amy Toensing: The...

 to building this charter, launching it and propagating it so that it becomes -- I'd like to see it in every college, every church, every mosque, every synagogue in the world,