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In New York, such companies have to join with nonprofit organizations if they want to open charter schools.

In Arizona, a cautionary tale about opening charter schools.

Its opening charter declared that it was to remain 'in the sole hands of its founder.

Mr. Sanders acknowledged that ministers could not be barred from opening charter schools.

"There's a high level of interest from corporate executives, like the people at the Gap who gave $25 million for them to open charters in California," he said.

The State Department of Education was awarded a $1.3 million Federal grant yesterday to help defray the costs of opening charter schools, officials said.

SUNY either willfully ignored this requirement, or in its rush to open charter schools this fall, it neglected to follow all the necessary procedures."

Ninety groups have applied to open charter schools in New York State next year, including 35 whose schools would be run by profit-making companies, state officials announced yesterday.

Five groups that want to open charter schools in Westchester are among 90 applicants to the State University of New York's Charter School Institute in Purchase.

In December 2007, Japan and the People's Republic of China reached a basic agreement on opening charter services between Haneda and Beijing Nanyuan Airport.

In contrast, the law approved by the State Legislature in Washington in March prohibits profit-seeking companies from receiving either licenses to open charter schools or contracts to administer them.

Since then, he said, Sabis - which began with a private school just outside Beirut - has also won approval to open charter schools in Michigan, North Carolina and the District of Columbia.

But because younger students are cheaper to educate than teen-agers who need laboratories, athletic equipment, extensive libraries and specialized teachers, most of those who have opened charter schools have chosen to open elementary schools.

In a thoughtful and open charter reform process, I would welcome the opportunity to explain why the charter currently gives the right of succession to me as a citywide elected official rather than to the mayor's hand-picked assistant.

Stefan Pryor, chief of staff for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, has been appointed chief executive of a nonprofit organization created to support and open charter schools in New York City, officials said yesterday.