School bonds

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.

Thanks to what one county official termed an "incredible" bond sale, Lee County will pay less interest than expected on a $33 million loan.

The district remains deeply in speculative-grade territory even after the two-notch upgrade.

School bond supporters received favorable results for the biggest three proposals.

Gaston County voters green-lighted both a $250 million school bond referendum and a quarter-cent sales tax increase to pay back the borrowed money Tuesday night.

State lawmakers will meet in a special session May 14.

As the Linn-Mar Community School District's superintendent prepares to leave the growing district, board members are set to again ask voters to finance the building of new schools.

The Fayette County School District's bonds will fund improvements to handle higher enrollment and boost a science and math program.

Most of the more than $6 billion of bond proposals on local ballots passed, but some large issues fell short.