Sentences with phrase «bond guarantee program»

Texas has extremely stringent eligibility requirements that public charter schools must meet to access the PSF bond guarantee program.

It's access to the PSF bond guarantee program that has saved charters millions of dollars and returned that money to the classroom.

Last session, Rep. Murphy filed two of TCSA's legislative priorities: HB 3018, which increased public charter school access to the Permanent School Fund (PSF) Bond Guarantee Program, and HB 1276 / HJR 85, which exempted property leased to a public charter school from ad valorem taxation for the duration of the lease.

Since 2014, public charter schools that meet the eligibility criteria have been able to issue and refinance bonds with the PSF Bond Guarantee Program, saving millions of taxpayer dollars that were able to stay in the classroom.

Last session, Rep. Murphy filed two of TCSA's legislative priorities: HB 3018, which increased public charter school access to the Permanent School Fund (PSF) Bond Guarantee Program, and HB 1276 / HJR 85, which exempted property leased to -LSB-...]

HB 467 expands the capacity of the Permanent School Fund (PSF) Bond Guarantee Program for public charter schools.

The PSF Bond Guarantee Program was created by the Texas Legislature to enhance a public school's credit rating and thereby lower the interest rates on bonds issued by public schools.

Representative Murphy introduced HB 467 in the Texas House to expand the capacity of the Permanent School Fund Bond Guarantee Program by $ 3 Billion for public charter schools.

The House Public Education Committee unanimously voted out HB 467, the bill that would increase the capacity available for charter schools through the Permanent School Fund (PSF) Bond Guarantee program.

During this past regular session, TCSA was able to accomplish much for students including passage of bills to safeguard funding of charters with the Minutes of Instruction bill and separately, legislation that increased the capacity for the Permanent School Fund Bond Guarantee Program.

Today the charter school movement achieved an important win: the State Board of Education voted to give qualifying charter schools earlier access to the recent increase for Permanent School Fund bond guarantee program.

This bill would increase the capacity of the Permanent School Fund Bond Guarantee Program available to public charter schools.

House Bill 467 proposes to make charter school capacity a percentage of the bond guarantee program's total capacity instead of available capacity, which would result in an increase from $ 1 billion to roughly $ 4 billion.

Not exact matches

If the government can guarantee certain savings in bank accounts through the F.D.I.C., why not establish a program that would require that every employee own a regulated block of stock (Retirement Account) made up of stock in the company the employee works for and, so the employee will not have all his retirement eggs in one basket, include in this retirement basket high rated bonds and stocks from other non-competing employee - owned companies?

• The Minister of Finance has reduced the amount of new guarantees that CMHC is authorized to provide under its 2014 securitization programs to $ 80 billion for market National Housing Act Mortgage Backed Securities and to $ 40 billion for Canada Mortgage Bonds.

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Despite the housing slump, federal policymakers have only employed one or two tools: First, they used federal guarantees to backstop the federal mortgage programs (FHA, Fannie, Freddie) and saved their mortgage - backed bonds from collapse.