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Charter advocates defeat restrictions
- 07-01-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Charter schools’ lobby and friends have beaten back the latest effort to tighten financial and academic oversight of charter schools. AB 1950 had easily passed the Assembly. But on Tuesday, the eve before her bill would have been heard – and likely voted down — in the charter-friendly Senate Education Committee, the bill’s sponsor, Democratic Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, withdrew it.That will be it for imposing additional charter regulations for the session, unless Brownley and the California Charter School Assn. can cut a deal on new rules for closing poorly performing charter schools. (more...)
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