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RefID-134-teresa2018speculative	Teresa,Benjamin F.	Speculative Charter School Growth in the Case of UNO Charter School Network in Chicago	2018		.txt	text/plain	157	5	38	Drawing on an analysis of the financing that enabled the dramatic growth of the UNO Charter School Network (UCSN) in Chicago during the 2000s, the article explores the implications of speculative borrowing and spiraling debt burdens on charter schools and on the functioning of the charter sector more broadly. The analysis reveals that (1) new debt was increasingly used to retire existing debt, (2) the structure of new financing assumed continued growth, and (3) schools within the network were yoked together as revenue from existing—and anticipated—schools was pledged to repay new debt.	cache/RefID-134-teresa2018speculative.txt	txt/RefID-134-teresa2018speculative.txt
