School bonds

Big changes could be in store for the Burlington-Edison School District.

San Francisco voters approved a parcel tax aimed at retaining teachers through salary raises.

The Conroe Independent School District is considering a bond election only four years after voters approved a $487 million bond referendum in 2015.

The massive amount of local debt Texas voters have authorized could limit governments' flexibility, Moody's Investors Service says.

Bedford Schools is moving forward with a proposed $35 million bond issue for the November ballot.

Northwest Community Schools is giving it's $24.9 million bond another try.

The Mattawan Consolidated School district is hoping to demolish vacant buildings with the help of a nearly $20 million bond presented to the voters in August.

Vallejo school district administrators are taking a rare approach when it comes to getting a $194 million bond before the city's voters this November.

The Walton Family Foundation provided seed funds to create two “innovative” financing vehicles for charter school facilities.

In an effort to find proof of payment for many of the projects paid for with funds from the 2014 bond, the Greenville Independent School District Board of Trustees has selected Whitley Penn as the auditing firm that will review payments made to Bartlett Cocke General Contractors under the bond election program.

The Indiana school district gets to wipe out its $10 million deficit and Ball State University will take over operations in July.

The financial and management challenges facing the Houston Independent School District have so far have not affected its bond ratings.

The district priced debt Thursday at narrower spreads than it faced in a November sale.

Vallejo school district Superintendent Adam Clark says he is "disappointed" by the school board's decision Wednesday night not to place a $194 million bond on the November ballot to address the district's crumbling facilities.

Wake County leaders are hoping taxpayers will be more willing to support borrowing money for school construction projects if they don't ask them for more than $1 billion at a time.

Voters approved Omaha Public Schools' $410 million bond referendum and another district's $510 million measure.

Spokane Public Schools officials are exploring the possibility of placing a major bond measure on the November ballot that would move up the timetable for building three new middle schools and replacing three others.

The district is promoting structural protections and fiscal gains as it prepares to go to market with a $260 million refunding.

Ball State University's takeover of the troubled Muncie Schools will come as soon as July 1.

The Miami-Dade County School District improved its disclosure practices to provide better bond investor outreach.