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A New Hampshire issuer appears to be the first student loan issuer to withdraw from the Internal Revenue Service's voluntary closing agreement program to settle a tax law dispute over some of the $135.4 million of adjustable-rate education loan revenue bonds it issued in 2011.
July 1 -
A pension reform plan endorsed by leaders of Illinois' public universities and touted as a potential model for an overhaul of the state's other funds received a hearing last week.
June 24 -
Three new advanced manufacturing centers at community colleges across Connecticut will receive $7.3 million for facility and equipment upgrades that the state's Bond Commission approved.
June 24 -
Oklahoma is seeking legal assurance that a state university bond program is constitutional.
June 21 -
Louisiana will issue $251.6 million of bonds for community college project under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Bobby Jindal.
June 17 -
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said there is not enough time left in the Legislature's special session to deal with college tuition revenue bonds.
June 17 -
The ratings of Illinois' eight public universities and their collective $2.5 billion of debt face a potential downgrade over exposure to the state's fiscal woes, Moody's investors Service warned.
June 11 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a rule to establish a database for 529 college savings plans.
June 10 -
Key members of the Texas Legislature are developing plans to salvage $2 billion of college and university construction bonds in a special session whose only agenda involves redistricting.
June 5 -
Standard & Poor's dropped the rating on Rutgers University's general obligation debt to AA-minus from AA, citing risks associated with the planned merger with University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey.
June 5 -
University of Arizona wants to include almost $200 million of projects in a Pima County bond proposal.
June 3 -
Twenty-nine technical training projects at two-year colleges in Louisiana will be funded with $251.6 million of state bonds that won final legislative approval Friday.
May 31 -
Moody's Investors Service downgraded Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, to Aa3 from Aa2.
May 31 -
Standard & Poor's revised its outlook to positive from stable and affirmed its AA long-term rating and AA/A-1-plus rating on University of Pittsburgh debt.
May 31 -
The Georgia Institute of Technology's recent announcement that it will offer the first low-cost online master's degree in computer science is a credit positive, according to Moody's Investors Service.
May 24 -
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker reduced a proposed funding increase for the University of Wisconsin system in his proposed two-year budget by $94 million and recommended a tuition freeze.
May 21 -
The Kansas Senate approved $202 million of state bonds for a national bio-defense laboratory at Kansas State University on a voice vote.
May 20 -
Williams College will go to market with a $154 million negotiated sale of Series 2013P revenue bonds through the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency.
May 13 - Texas
University of Texas regents approved $334.5 million of university revenue bonds to fund a medical school in Austin.
May 13 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's revised suitability rule should include dealer obligations to sophisticated municipal market professionals and suitability requirements for 529 college savings plans, according to comments received by the MSRB Monday.
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