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North Adams, Mass., Sues State to Halt Charter Schools.

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| March 26, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

By Anand Vaishnav, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 26--Angry that state officials approved a charter school to open in North Adams, city leaders are suing the state Department of Education, challenging the constitutionality of the publicly financed, privately run charter schools.

The lawsuit, announced yesterday, charges that charter schools violate a section of the state constitution prohibiting public money from flowing to schools that are not controlled by "public agents" such as school committees. That section is the so-called anti-aid amendment, a 150-year-old clause in the state constitution that has successfully…

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