The lowest performing schools would face changes such as replacing teachers and the principal or being closed.

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Your mortgage payment is constant through time but the fraction of it that goes to paying off principal versus interest changes through time and it just changes as dictated by this formula.

抵押贷款每月还款是固定的,但是其中本金和利息的比例关系,会随时间而改变,这是由这个公式所决定的

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