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Shaye Carter and Janie Lewis each risked a $300 fine yesterday because they had refused to withdraw their children from Career Connections Charter Middle School and enroll them in Pittsburgh Public Schools. They couldn't have cared less. "I'm more concerned about my child's education," Ms. Carter said of daughter, Ria, a seventh-grader. District Judge Randy Martini continued the truancy cases for 90 days, hoping that would be enough time to resolve a dispute between the charter school and school district that has students and parents caught in the middle. Ms. Carter and Ms. Lewis, whose son, Quinn, is a sixth-grader,...