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With 100,000 More Signatures Than Required, Charter School Approval Heads to Voters in November

Jul 25, 2012 | Articles, Featured, News

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The charter schools initiative is officially on the Washington state ballot for November.
Secretary of State Sam Reed announced Wednesday that supporters easily qualified by submitting more than enough signatures. …

Supporters gathered more than 350,000 signatures for charter school Initiative 1240, far more than the minimum requirement of about 241,000. Inspectors found a lower than average error rate, of either invalid or duplicated signatures.