1.   The firm operates schools under contract to state education authorities.

2.   A few mind livestock, and others operate three schools on the property.

3.   But building and operating schools is expensive.

4.   But Proposal A prohibits them from seeking a local tax levy to pay for staffing and operating the school.

5.   But the Pentagon also operates postgraduate schools for officers from eager young captains to battle-hardened colonels.

6.   Churches and synagogues were not allowed to operate religious schools of any kind.

7.   Edison Schools Inc. and School Futures Research Foundation, which already operate charter schools in Kansas City, are among those hoping to open additional schools, Blossom said.

8.   Franklin Sanborn operated a school in Concord where the sons of Emerson, Hawthorne and Horace Mann were students.

9.   He now runs Spirit Line Kayaks, which operates the school and makes custom-built boats.

10.   He has chosen to defend an education establishment run by liberals whose goal is to operate every school in America by remote control.