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Eric Hartley: Who's really in charge of charter schools?

Published 01/20/08

The two men didn't know each other, but sitting together at a school cafeteria table, they suddenly seemed like old friends.

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"They're here to tell us who's in charge," Gregory Purnell said as he leaned toward Mike Terebuch, who nodded with a wry smile.

The men, both fathers of 11-year-old sixth-graders at Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School, were listening to county education bureaucrats tell them what's right and wrong with their school.

And like seemingly every other parent present, they weren't happy. Tempers flared at times during the Jan. 8 meeting at the Hanover school, which came...

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