Austin area households enjoy diverse options in education, including 29 public school districts, 17 charter schools and 69 private schools.

In 1819, Dartmouth College was the subject of the historic Dartmouth College case, which challenged New Hampshire's 1816 attempt to amend the College's royal charter to make the school a public university.

In Sweden, the 1991-1994 centre-right government under Carl Bildt introduced a voucher system at primary and secondary school level, enabling free choice among public and charter schools ( friskolor ) in the community.

The charter school movement has also spawned an increase in progressive programs.

*, a video focusing on the hate crimes incited by KABC 790 AM shock jock Doug McIntyre against a Los Angeles charter school, Academia Semillas del Pueblo, in 2006.

Milken also established K12 ( company ), a publicly traded education management organization ( EMO ) that provides online schooling, including to charter school students for whom services are paid by tax dollars, which is the largest EMO in terms of enrollment.

* Pacific Collegiate School, a grades 7-12 charter school located on the westside of Santa Cruz, California

The most common options offered by school choice programs are open enrollment laws that allow students to attend other public schools, private schools, charter schools, tax credit and deductions for expenses related to schooling, vouchers, and homeschooling.

The majority of states ( and the District of Columbia ) have charter school laws.

Minnesota was the first state to have a charter school law and the first charter school in the United States, City Academy High School, opened in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992.

Cyber charter schools deliver the majority of their instruction over the internet instead of in a school building.

The majority of states ( and the District of Columbia ) have charter school laws.

Minnesota was the first state to have a charter school law and the first charter school in the United States, City Academy, opened in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992.

Cyber charter schools deliver the majority of their instruction over the internet instead of in a school building.

Penn has three claims to being the first university in the United States, according to university archives director Mark Frazier Lloyd: the 1765 founding of the first medical school in America made Penn the first institution to offer both " undergraduate " and professional education ; the 1779 charter made it the first American institution of higher learning to take the name of " University "; and existing colleges were established as seminaries.

Although Penn began operating as an academy or secondary school in 1751 and obtained its collegiate charter in 1755, it initially designated 1750 as its founding date ; this is the year which appears on the first iteration of the university seal.

In 1553, King Edward VI granted Totnes a charter allowing a former Benedictine priory building that had been founded in 1088 to be used as Totnes Guildhall and a school.

The Institute's original charter was authorized by the state legislature on March 1, 1850, and the school opened on November 27, 1850 despite the fact that the building was not yet completed.

Elizabeth I's charter of 1573 describes the school's purpose thus: < BLOCKQUOTE > " a grammar school which shall be called The Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth for the education, bringing up and instruction of boys and youth, to be brought up in grammar and other learning, and the same to continue for ever, and the said School for one Master and one Usher for ever to continue and remain and that there shall be for ever four-and-twenty discreet, honest governors of the said Free Grammar School.

Ravitch said that the charter school and testing reform movement was started by " right wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation ," for the purpose of destroying public education and teachers ' unions.

On December 31, 2001, Banknorth Group, Inc., merged its seven subsidiary banks into one bank — Banknorth NA — under the Peoples Heritage Bank charter dating back to 1852, with one OCC charter.

in Vermont ; Bank of New Hampshire under the charter of Farmington National Bank in New Hampshire ; Oxford Bank & Trust, a division of Peoples Heritage Bank, and Peoples Heritage Bank in Maine ; First Mass.

On December 31, 2001, the holding company, Banknorth Group, Inc., merged its seven subsidiary banks into one bank, Banknorth NA under the Peoples Heritage Bank charter dating back to 1852, with one OCC charter.

Sebastopol is home to Analy High School, Laguna High School, Brook Haven Middle School, Gravenstein Elementary School, Hillcrest Middle School, Twin Hills Middle School, Pine Crest Elementary, Apple Blossom Elementary, along with many other private and charter schools.

Additionally, Mohave Accelerated Elementary School and Mohave Accelerated Learning Center are public charter schools serving K-12 students in Bullhead City and the surrounding area.

Kingsburg Elementary schools operate on a charter school system.

Muscoy is served by the San Bernardino City Unified School District through Vermont Elementary and Muscoy Elementary schools, and through the PAL Center, a charter school.

OUSD has 24 schools plus three charter schools, including the School of Business and Technology, and two brand new schools, Louise Foussat Elementary School and Cesar E. Chavez Middle School, that opened in the Fall of 2007.

A school that was recently added as a charter school is Cottonwood Creek Elementary.

There are five elementary schools, Berkley Elementary ( a charter school ), Auburndale Central Elementary, Lena Vista Elementary, Boswell Elementary and Caldwell Elementary

in Auburndale which feed into Stambaugh Middle School, though students from Berkley Elementary are admitted into Berkley Accelerated Middle School ( another charter school ), while other students wishing to apply are put on a waiting list.

Generally students will go to elementary school at nearby Babson Park Elementary, and then go on to Frostproof Middle / High School or take advantage of the Lake Wales charter school system.

Dale R Fair Babson Park Elementary, Hillcrest Elementary, Janie Howard Wilson Elementary, Polk Avenue Elementary and Lake Wales High School were converted to charter status in the Fall of 2004.

Newton public schools consist of Newton High, Santa Fe Middle, Chisholm Middle, Sunset Elementary, Northridge Elementary, Southbreeze Elementary, Slate Creek Elementary, and Walton agricultural charter school ( in Walton, Kansas ).

* 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

Charter bus operators may be completely independent businesses, or charter hire may be a subsidiary business of a public transport operator who might maintain a separate fleet or use surplus buses, coaches, and dual purpose coach seated buses.

St Albans played a role in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381: the peasants, led by a local man William Grindcobbe and Jack Straw, forced their way into the Abbey and demanded a charter for the freedom of St Albans from the Abbot (' Charter of freedom of the villeins of St Alban's forcibly obtained from the Abbot and Convent ', 16 June 1381 ).

Langton's efforts at mediation created a charter capturing the proposed peace agreement ; it was later renamed Magna Carta, or " Great Charter ".

Magna Carta, also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an Angevin charter, originally issued in Latin in the year 1215, translated into vernacular-French as early as 1219, and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions.

The charter first passed into law in 1225 ; the 1297 version, with the long title ( originally in Latin ) " The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, and of the Liberties of the Forest ," still remains on the statute books of England and Wales.

* Newsgroups Charter Directory-A charter list to educate and inform users about spceific Usenet groups and their purpose

The Palestinian National Covenant or Palestinian National Charter (; transliterated: al-Mithaq al-Watani al-Filastini ) is the charter or constitution of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ).

At one time the text of the Charter at the official website of the Palestinian National Authority appended these amendments to the text of the 1968 charter ; the redrafting process referred to in the second amendment still remains uncompleted.

In 2001, the European Union explicitly banned racism, along with many other forms of social discrimination, in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the legal effect of which, if any, would necessarily be limited to Institutions of the European Union: " Article 21 of the charter prohibits discrimination on any ground such as race, color, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, disability, age or sexual orientation and also discrimination on the grounds of nationality.

The formal concept of civil liberties dates back to the English legal charter the Magna Carta 1215, which in turn was based on pre-existing documents namely the English Charter of Liberties, a landmark document in English legal history.

* Charter Management Organization, in American education refers to the operator of a charter school

The first bank to receive a national charter was the First National Bank of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( Charter # 1 ).

Some innovations were included, upon request by Villèle: though Charles was hostile towards the 1814 Charter, commitment to the ' constitutional charter ' was affirmed, and four of Napoleon's generals were in attendance.

University Heights Charter School is another charter school, serving children in grades K-5, recognized as a 2011 Epic Silver Gain School.

The Villages Charter Schools is a K-12 charter school in unincorporated northern Sumter County in The Villages CDP.

There is only one charter school in Wilkes County: Bridges Charter School in State Road, North Carolina.

The middle schools are Bethany Charter ( Rockingham County's only charter school ), Holmes, Rockingham County, Reidsville, and Western Rockingham.

Lenoir County is home to two private academies -- Arendell Parrott Academy and Bethel Christian Academy -- and two charter academies -- Kinston Charter Academy and Children's Village Academy.

Gaston County has three charter schools: Highland Charter ( K – 5 ) and Piedmont Community Charter School ( K – 12 ) in Gastonia, and Mountain Island Charter School ( K – 8 ) in Mount Holly.

To receive a Royal Charter, the organization must have corporate members who have at least first degree level in a relevant field, consist of 5, 000 members or more, be financially sound, and it must be in the public interest to regulate the institution under a charter.

In addition to the district public school, there is a charter school, Masada Charter School, serving students in grades K-9.