August 1997Charter Schools Set Sail Across America
by Donna Harrington-Lueker
While some eye the charter movement warily, other superintendents are finding ways to build charter schools into their reforms, according to Harrington-Lueker, an education free-lance writer in Newport, R.I. Also: Passions run deep on all sides and What happens when a charter fails.
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