A former teacher in Washington, DC, in her final year of graduate school pursuing an MBA is tasked with preparing a five-year financial forecast to support an application for a potential charter school being considered in the Washington, DC, area. The protagonist must make enrollment predictions, forecast revenues based on those predictions as well as DC Charter School funding expectations, and forecast staff-related, occupancy, student, and administrative expenses en route to compiling her five-year financial forecast that will be presented at the DC school board meeting as part of application for charter school approval.