id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000447513000004 Teresa, BF Speculative Charter School Growth in the Case of UNO Charter School Network in Chicago 2018 .txt text/plain 155 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 existingand anticipatedschools was pledged to repay new debt. cache/WOS-000447513000004.txt txt/WOS-000447513000004.txt