School bonds

The state-supported issuance marks the initial debt offering to backstop a $523 milion initiative.

With a record $3 billion going to education, Oklahoma is facing stricter accounting in the wake of charter school funding abuses.

The Securities and Exchange Commission settled with the Sweetwater Union High School District as well as former Chief Financial Officer Karen Michel.

The pluses and minuses of breaking up the 70-year-old Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District will be weighed during a public hearing Saturday.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot chose San Antonio schools superintendent and former CPS CFO Pedro Martinez to lead the district ahead of a major governance shift.

J.B. Pritzker signed legislation to move the Chicago Board of Education to an elected 21-member board from the seven-member panel now appointed by the mayor.

The city and school district's financial "entanglements" will be the subject of an independent financial review due before the first elections are held.

The measure would fund deferred maintenance projects at K-12 schools and state universities. It heads to the Assembly and would ultimately be decided by voters.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she will keep fighting to reshape the legislation the state Senate approved this week to transition to a fully elected school board.

Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corp. is marketing the $127 million issuance as social bonds.

The state has allocated $1.3 billion over three years to repair and replace 163 buildings, General Treasurer Seth Magaziner reported.

Change is afoot for CPS as its leader Janice Jackson is leaving and legislation stripping Chicago's mayor of full power to appoint CPS board members gains legislative momentum.

More Illinois districts were lifted into the top fiscal category last year even as they navigated the start of COVID-19 pandemic

The $8.5 billion on the ballots included $6.5 billion for schools, $1.6 billion for cities, $319 million for counties and $139 million for community colleges.

A year after the traditional May bond elections were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, Texans will consider bonds for local issuers, mostly schools.

S&P raised CPS' junk rating by one notch, saying federal funds will boost an "already positive financial trajectory."

The pandemic has caused some special circumstances for state and local governments in juggling their finances. Jeffrey Previdi, the vice-chairman of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board who spent more than 20 years of his career at S&P Global Ratings, talks about what his regulatory organization has done to assist them. Previdi also talked about how GASB influences how state and local governments spend taxpayer money on such things as schools, firehouses, water treatment plants, and other infrastructure. Brian Tumulty hosts. (25 minutes)

The California School Finance Authority has received 148 applications from districts and charter schools seeking to borrow almost $1.4 billion.

Our municipal impact strategy will continue to refrain from investing in school districts that are not actively, urgently and aggressively acting to identify and thwart violence against students.

The rating agency placed 637 of the roughly 3,400 school districts it rates on review for upgrade or downgrade, and upgraded 85.