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ST. PAUL -- Gov. Tim Pawlenty said he is a few weeks away from naming a new education chief to take over for Cheri Pierson Yecke, who was voted out of her job by the DFL-led Senate.

Cheri Pierson dismissed her claims in a so-called stipulation of discontinuance filed with a New York state court in Manhattan on Thursday.