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Washington Post
November 8, 2006
Theola Labbe

Board Seeks to Give Away Its Oversight of Charters

The D.C. Board of Education voted yesterday to voluntarily give up its power to establish charter schools in the District.

The decision does not immediately relieve the board of its charter responsibilities, but it sends a clear message to the D.C. Council and Congress -- two entities likely to get involved in the debate -- that the 11-member board wants to focus exclusively on the 58,000 students in the traditional school system.

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