Eric Premack grew up in Minneapolis; graduated from Washburn High School. After graduate school in public policy he went to California; worked initially with the Office of the Legislative Analyst where he was assigned to education finance; then worked as a consultant in the field. In 1991 he began making people in California aware of the chartering legislation then just enacted in Minnesota, and became involved with passage of the charter legislation in California in 1992. He set up Charter Schools Development Center (CSDC) as a support organization for the chartered sector in California. About 40 percent of the schools in this largest chartered-school sector in America work with his organization. He is close to the key actors in California education policy. This report contains notes from several discussions with Eric, partly about chartering but also about the important new directions in K-12 policy generally in America's largest state. The notes highlighted in this report are significant for the developing education-policy discussion in the state of Minnesota.