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Dublin parents hope to open a charter high school
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DUBLIN -- Saying Dublin needs another comprehensive high school,
a group of parents hopes to open a charter school for high school-
age students in fall 2012.
While the Web site for the proposed Tassajara Preparatory High
School notes that Dublin High School, the city's sole comprehensive
public high school, is on the west side of town -- and some East
Dublin residents have expressed concerns about their proximity to
Dublin High -- the parents group's leader downplayed the geography
issue.
"It doesn't matter to me, east or west," said Rully Kusuma,
president of the group, called the Dublin ...
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