As school districts integrate charter schools for centralized admissions in Denver, New Orleans, Newark and Washington D.C., some schools have stayed out. We provide a new framework to study the incentives of a school to join a clearinghouse and we show that each school prefers to remain out of the system when others join it. Therefore, our analysis provides an explanation of why some charter s...

A questionnaire on bullying and cyberbullying was administered to 30 secondary students (Grades 7-12) in a charter school for the Deaf and hard of hearing and a matched group of 22 hearing students in a charter secondary school on the same campus. Because the sample size was small and distributions non-normal, results are primarily descriptive and correlational. No significant differences by he...

In.this article, the author discusses the legal status of the foetus in the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Tremblay v. Daigle. She examines the Court's finding that the foetus has no rights in the civil or common law and exposes the resulting difficulties with the assertion of foetal rights under the Charter. By drawing upon factums submitted by the parties and by anti-abortion...

Background A 2014 survey of people with Parkinson’s (PwPs) and clinicians internationally identified the following perceived barriers to clinical trial success in Parkinson’s disease (PD): fear of potential adverse consequences; communication failures and misunderstandings over the trial process (PwPs); and insufficient financial/administrative support (clinicians)[1]. In order to address these...

Publicly traded corporations rarely use the nearly absolute freedom afforded them to draft charters that deviate from the default terms of state corporation law. Conventional explanations for this phenomenon are unconvincing. A more promising explanation lies in the lack of any feasible amendment mechanism that will assure efficient adaptation of charter terms as changing circumstances dictate ...