School bonds

Voter approval rates this year for Wisconsin school district fiscal referendums fell short of last year’s record levels.

When they met Monday, the Leavenworth, Kansas, Board of Education were briefed on plans for capital projects that will be funded largely with money from a bond issue that was approved last year.

It's the first such deal in four years for the authority.

A boost in state funding and higher local property valuations lifted school districts' finances, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

The enrollment and cost stresses underscored by teacher strikes in Los Angeles and Oakland aren't limited to large urban districts.

Voters rejected the largest three school bonds in Tuesday's election — Cassia County, Minidoka County and Filer — but approved smaller ballot measures across the Magic Valley.

The Berkeley County School District said its financial advisors and bond counsel were involved a fraud scheme that sent its CFO to prison.

The House speaker wants a $2 billion school bond bill to fund capital needs, but the Senate's leader wants a pay-as-you-go approach.

Huron Schools is seeking voter passage of a $49,075,000 bond issue request for 30 years on May 7.

In an historic election result, two African-American women will face off in a runoff election to become the next mayor of Chicago. Yvette Shields talks with Chip Barnett about what this means for the municipal bond market and why it matters to bondholders.

The audit includes $121.5 million in Series 2011 T direct-pay qualified zone academy bonds and four Series 2011 R taxable of school construction bonds that totaled $ 756.4 million.

The school district, which has about 50,000 students, faces a $30 million deficit in fiscal 2020.

Fitch downgraded many of the district’s bonds to BBB-plus, but those it views as having pledged special revenues stay AAA.

School bonds for Wilson and Sulphur schools passed during Tuesday's special elections.

The Fort Madison School Board on Monday adopted a resolution ordering a special election on the issuance of a $30 million general obligation bond.

The Fort Madison School District this spring will, for a fourth time since 2016, ask voters to approve the issuance of a multimillion-dollar general obligation bond to build a new elementary building to replace its two existing ones.

Deep fiscal strains weigh on the district's efforts to claw its way back to investment grade.

The Sacramento City Unified School District is on track to have a negative cash balance in November.

The firm tapped veteran Phong Pham to head the new office in the western part of the state.

The St. Paul City Council is taking a dim view of Concordia University's plans to take a nine-story medical office building at least partially off the city's tax rolls.