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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.
May 3 -
A year after the traditional May bond elections were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, Texans will consider bonds for local issuers, mostly schools.
April 26 -
S&P raised CPS' junk rating by one notch, saying federal funds will boost an "already positive financial trajectory."
April 5 -
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)
March 9 -
The California School Finance Authority has received 148 applications from districts and charter schools seeking to borrow almost $1.4 billion.
February 11 -
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.
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The rating agency placed 637 of the roughly 3,400 school districts it rates on review for upgrade or downgrade, and upgraded 85.
January 27 -
The negative outlook reflects the challenge of rebalancing the district’s budget in the face of pandemic-related reopening costs.
January 25 -
After a dramatic year of pandemic and a record bond proposal, Dallas ISD is taking bids on $274 million of bonds to upgrade schools.
January 11 -
The deal is rated BBB-plus by Fitch Ratings, Baa1 by Moody’s Investors Service and BBB by S&P Global Ratings.
December 31