Sentences with phrase «charter school bonds»

In 2014, charter schools got a break when lawmakers allowed the Permanent School Fund to guarantee charter school bonds, not just school district bonds.

At its Feb. 2 meeting, the State Board of Education is expected to increase the amount of charter school bond coverage from the PSF by $ 566 million.

According to the Texas Education Agency that oversees the PSF, expanding charter school bond coverage will not deprive traditional schools of coverage.

Janet Robertson joined the firm in 2017 establishing our charter school bond counsel and public finance practice.

They reviewed a study by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the largest national community development nonprofit, which has analyzed every rated and unrated charter school bond issued from 1998 - 2011.

(Complete results are available in LISC's Charter School Bond History: Volume 2).

Not exact matches

Also, the governor's budget does not include charter schools in the smart schools bond act.

But Ms. Moskowitz has far more power outside the political machine than she ever did within it, forging a close bond with the governor that allowed her to secure unprecedented protections for charter schools in last year's legislative session.

The South Buffalo Charter School — one of the region's first — came about through that sort of bond financing, Schroeder noted.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

Making state bond funds available to charter schools is an uphill battle, but California recently allocated to charter schools $ 100 million of an $ 11.4 billion bond package for K - 12 education facilities.

At the state level, Colorado and Michigan now allow bond authorities to issue tax - exempt bonds on behalf of charter schools.

All of these strategies make charter schools more appealing to lenders by aligning their legal life spans more closely with that of mortgages and bonds.

However, this represents less than 1 percent of the bond package, when charter schools account for 4.5 percent of California's public schools and serve about 2.5 percent of the state's K - 12 public school students.

However, he reports, «charter schools have become successful participants in the same bond markets that finance district facilities.»

The Sequoia Union High School District in Redwood City, California (one of the wealthiest in the state), filed suit in May 2002 in San Mateo County Superior Court to stop Aurora Charter High School from receiving its fair share — either in the form of rent money or buildings — of the $ 88 million bond measure that Sequoia passed in 2001.

Its main purpose was to make it easier to pass bond issues for public school funding, and district advocates say that most voters were not aware of the provision («buried in a little Easter egg,» as Folsom put it) requiring public schools to offer charters their unused space.

State legislatures have been reluctant to fund building programs, and charter schools, unlike school districts, can't float bonds to pay for capital spending.

Unlike regular public schools, which have the authority to seek taxpayer - backed bonds for renovating school buildings and new construction, charter schools have no such mechanism in place to offset their facilities costs, which often come out of their operating budgets.

Six charter schools will receive more than $ 48 million in such aid this month from revenue generated by a statewide school construction bond passed in November of last year.

«We view charter schools as competition, and Keller ISD feels like we can compete well,» Youngs told The Bond Buyer.

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.

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Of the $ 71.5 billion of bond principal outstanding, charter school districts accounted for $ 1.06 billion.

While charter public schools in Idaho receive all state and federal dollars afforded district public schools, they do not have access to local levy or bond dollars.

Public funds paid to charter schools should be protected similar to the bond funds raised for public school districts.

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

Potential policies outlined in the model law include giving charter schools a right of first refusal to lease or buy unused school facilities, giving them access to statewide building aid or financing programs, and including charters in bonding and tax levy requests.

Without assistance from bonds and local taxes, charter schools must rely on enrollment, foundations, and donations to subsidize their budgets.

Launched with the support of the Indianapolis Local Public Improvement Bond Bank (Bond Bank), this new $ 2 million credit enhancement program exclusively serves charter schools sponsored by the Mayor of Indianapolis.

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Charter schools also can tap the tax - exempt municipal - bond market for financing.

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He proposes a $ 24.8 billion bond measure to help states and school districts repair and build modern schools, with a portion dedicated to creating charter - school buildings.

Charters receive per pupil funding from the state like traditional district public schools but differ in not being able to receive funding for facilities and can not sell bonds and pass overrides.

CSDC provides a critical service for new and expanding charter schools which, unlike traditional schools, have neither a ready source of capital for facilities, nor the taxing or bonding authority to address capital funding requirements.

There are no bond issues for charter public school construction and improvements.

CCSA Advocates supports this measure because NUSD has included public charter schools in the bond and throughout the bond process.

Bond projects include classroom technology, safety and security upgrades, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) upgrades, new / renovated facilities for College, Career and Technical Education, temporary classrooms replaced by permanent classrooms, air conditioning, ADA improvements to athletic facilities, turf fields, and other capital improvements at traditional and charter schools throughout the district.

While CCSA Advocates often supports school bond measures, it chose to oppose this particular measure because the measure did not including funding for charter schools.

The bond also allocates $ 350 million for charter school projects.

Utilizing a $ 10 million federal enhancement grant and a $ 100,000 contribution from the Texas Education Agency (TEA), TCEP provides credit enhancement for municipal bonds that provide financing for the acquisition, construction, repair or renovation of Texas charter school facilities (including certain refinancing of facilities debt that meet federal guidelines), by funding a debt service reserve fund for such issuances.

Learn everything you need to know about why you should vote yes on Fresno County Measure A for Kingsburg Elementary Charter school improvement bonds.

Wall Street has generally been reluctant to buy up debt from charter schools, at least in part over concerns that funding can fluctuate and that an authorizing agency could terminate an operating agreement without regard to the terms of a bond.

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An attorney representing the California Charter Schools Association, Winston Stromberg, suggested that one of the bond measures to improve sites for students with disabilities was rushed through without stakeholder input.

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.

As the charter movement continues to grow, achieve academically and fight for a stable, predictable an adequate K - 12 funding, the bond between the Association and its schools are closer than ever.