EDITORIAL ACCELERATED LEARNING CHARTERS PRESENT CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES.THE financial problems plaguing the Accelerated School are a sign of the dangers -- and benefits -- of charter schools. Unlike traditional public schools, charters are on tighter budgets because they have capital expenses to worry about. And unlike private schools, they don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. have wealthy parents and alumni to draw upon. So Accelerated, a nationally recognized educational innovator, borrowed $9.9 million from Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. bond funds for facility costs -- a loan that has fallen into default. But if there's an upside Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside to this loss of taxpayer money, it's this: Accelerated's administrators need to find a way to come up with the cash, or they will lose their school. Unlike traditional public schools, for charters, fiscal or educational incompetence in·com·pe·tence or in·com·pe·ten·cy n. 1. The quality of being incompetent or incapable of performing a function, as the failure of the cardiac valves to close properly. 2. carries a steep price. Charters can fail. That's what allows them to succeed. |
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