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Newswire: October 17, 2000
Dubious NSBA charter schools report… Minnesota’s award-winning charter school law… BLOB blocks charter efforts in Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Georgia… Washington’s charter initiative gaining support… PBS special on charters… and more in this week’s Newswire.