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An independent report commissioned by the Los Angeles Unified School District's superintendent predicted dire financial results if the school system doesn't take action.

With construction on its new basketball arena humming along, California's capitol is turning is attention to an extensive downtown revitalization project that aims to leverage property taxes to create 10,000 places to live in downtown Sacramento by 2025.

Fitch Ratings deemed the reorganization of Clark County School District, Nevada's largest school and the nation's fifth biggest, to be a mid-term credit risk in a report describing the experience of a Utah school district that underwent a break-up in 2010.

Voters in eight states approved 26 of 37 transportation funding proposals on Nov. 3 ballots.

Moody's Investors Service had more upgrades than downgrades in the third quarter of 2015, and the upgrades also affected a larger dollar amount of debt than its downgrades.

Standard & Poor's raised its long-term rating to A-plus from A on the Ukiah Redevelopment Agency, Calif.'s series 2011A tax allocation bonds, citing increased assessed value.

Raymond James continues its expansion in California with the recent hiring of veteran education banker Charlie Feinstein in San Francisco.

The New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority appears to be settling a tax dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over revenue bonds it issued in 1993 for Deborah Heart and Lung Center, which later entered into a total return swap.

Fitch Ratings' Amy Laskey disputes the notion that the rating agency's action on San Diego school district bonds was a shift in approach.

Fitch Ratings, reframing its view of the special taxes that support local California GO bonds, assigned its AAA rating to a school district based solely on the special tax without regard to the district's budget and operations.