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MyShirley Posted 20 years ago
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Red Tape and Charter school
What do red tape and charter school mean?
E.g.: They tout the charter movement as a way for education to rid themselves of red tape.
E.g.: They tout the charter movement as a way for education to rid themselves of red tape.
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, that can take a long time to get anything done. Apparently, centuries ago bundles of legal papers were tied with red cloth tape In the US - and I don't know if the concept applies elsewhere - charter schools are schools that operate outside of the regular education bureaucracy. They are usually formed by parents, and often with a specific purpose - for example, a focus on performing arts, or science, or multi-lingual education.
- , that can take a long time to get anything done.
- Apparently, centuries ago bundles of legal papers were tied with red cloth tape In the US - and I don't know if the concept applies elsewhere - charter schools are schools that operate outside of the regular education bureaucracy.
- They are usually formed by parents, and often with a specific purpose - for example, a focus on performing arts, or science, or multi-lingual education.
- They operate with public funds but don't have to follow all the same rules as a regular public school.
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"Red tape" is an expression that means all the bureaucracy that is required to get something done: the forms, the committees, the approvals, etc., that can take a long time to get anything done. Apparently, centuries ago bundles of legal papers were tied with red cloth tape
In the US - and I don't know if the concept applies elsewhere - charter schools are schools that operate outside of
In the US - and I don't know if the concept applies elsewhere - charter schools are schools that operate outside of
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