School bonds

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.

Voters could experience déjà vu when they open their ballots for the February special election, which are scheduled to be mailed Friday.

The county school superintendent appointed a fiscal advisory team to help Los Angeles Unified close a structural deficit.

The LAUSD strike doesn't have an immediate rating impact, but analysts view it as a symptom of larger problems at the district.

The Legislative Analyst's Office says the shift of the takeover role from the state to the county may weaken oversight.

Detroit Public Schools Community District may opt to get its own bond rating or seek private funding if it can’t get help from the state.

Two recent cases saw bondholders take a hit because their liens were not considered to be perfected.

An improved Philadelphia economy drove the city’s long-struggling school district to an investment grade rating from Moody’s Investors Service.

A fact-finding report may not be the salve that Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner predicted.

Despite a technical default on a previous issue, five-year-old International Leadership Texas is ready to test the market with $346 million of bonds for its charter schools.

Chicago Public Schools is selling more than $1 billion of GOs, capital improvement tax bonds, and notes.

On Election Day, almost 59% of Ferndale, Wash., voters said that they'd be willing to raise property taxes to finance $112 million in bonds to build a new high school and finance other educational projects.

Moody's Investors Service placed the school district on review for an upgrade.