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es about Michigan's gamble on charter schools — and how its children lost. AlMa Tugend reports on the millions of dollars spent each year to expand Advanced Placement classes in majority black and Latino high schools. And Alice Yin shows how, in the more than 60 years since the heady and hopeful days following th