School bonds

The Los Angeles Unified School District bonds carry a sustainability label with a third party opinion from Kestrel.

Piper Sandler has hired Joe Kinder and Brent Blevins as managing directors on its public finance team. Both will focus on Missouri school districts and issuers.

The one-notch general obligation and certificates of participation rating downgrades resulted from the application of Fitch's updated criteria.

Agency cites growing debt levels and midrange demographic and economic factors.

The bonds, expected to be rated Aa2 by Moody's, will will be among the earliest general obligation bonds sold by Kentucky school districts since the state passed a law in April allowing such debt by school districts.

Charter school bond issuance have leveled off as issuers consider labels and alternative structures.

Issuers in the eight-state region sold $50.6 billion of bonds with Texas accounting for 65% of the volume.

Eduardo Ramos had faced insurance fraud charges that were unrelated to his work at the school district.

Missouri's Kansas City Public Schools is looking to take its modernization plan to voters and seek approval for a $474 million GO bond measure next April.

Salt Lake City School District is seeking $730 million of bonds and Salt Lake County is asking for $507 million of bonds at the Nov. 5 general election.

Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland is leveraging the P3 process to build eight new schools while issuing $663 million of taxable bonds.

Texas' largest school district, which was taken over by the state last year, is seeking voter approval for bonds for the first time since 2012.

The July 31 arrest of Eduardo Ramos, who submitted his resignation July 23, was not related to his job, according to the school system.

The Chicago Public Schools board unanimously approved the district's 2025 budget Thursday, a day after the Civic Federation warned it is a "temporary solution."

The county commission gave final approval to a nonprofit hospital bond and preliminary approval to a county government bond.

The Contra Costa County Office of Education gave West Contra Costa Unified School District until July 17 to pass a budget, or have the county office step in.

The legislature addressed the cost of a $329 million property tax refund in the state's largest county as well as passed a fiscal 2025 budget.

Milwaukee Public Schools is months late in submitting the annual financial audit reports amid turmoil that has seen its superintendent and comptroller depart.

The lawsuit filed in 2017 points to funding disparities when public school districts turn to local property taxes and bond issuance for capital funding.

Texas' largest public school system would use the proceeds from its biggest-ever bond referendum to fix aging facilities and make other improvements.