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Washington PTA wants charter schools reconsidered

DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press

Updated 03:56 p.m., Thursday, October 20, 2011

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SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington PTA wants charter schools to be a part of the state's education reform agenda, even though the idea has twice been rejected by voters and repeatedly shot down by lawmakers.

PTA members from around the state added charter public schools to their agenda when they met last weekend near Seattle. The organization's policy brief on the issue says the independent schools are an effective tool against the achievement gap.

"This is an additional way of looking at schools and what we need to be doing differently," Shelley Kloba, the Washington PTA's state legislative director, said Thursday. She emphasized that the charter school issue was just another tool in a wider PTA agenda.

This is the first time in Kloba's memory — she's been involved in setting the organization's

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