A charter school, by law, cannot exclude a student who wants to attend. Down in the basement, LearnNow President Jim Shelton helps sort breakfast milk. Choua Lee, the school's assistant director, goes from classroom to classroom to take a head count. Maychy Vu, dressed in the school uniform colors of white and navy blue, tries to track down late buses. On the whole of it, it's as much normal as extraordinary.
Charter schools are a hard business.
What Hope has going for it is care and planning. But expectation, on several levels, is high.