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CHARTER SCHOOL BONDS: THE NEXT THIRTY YEARS I think I’ll take a moment, celebrate my age The ending of an era, and the turning of a page Now it’s time to focus in on where I go from here Lord, have mercy on my next 30 years Tim McGraw, “My Next Thirty Years” Thirty years ago, Minnesota became the first state to authorize charter...
The doughnut economy sounds like a nice treat to have with a morning coffee but it is actually a serious rebuttal to the growth-centered economies of the present day. In 1934, the concept of gross domestic product (GDP) – the sum of consumption, investment, government spending, and exports minus imports – was created to compare the...
Ever struggle with finding current information on charter schools or charter school bonds? Searching multiple department of education websites, charter school authorizer portals, EMMA and other sources is time consuming, and much of the data is locked in PDFs or other nondigital forms. The fragmentation of data sources and limited digitization...
How is the mix of information required from charter school borrowers changing in light of COVID and the emphasis on distance learning? Alexis Turner, Director of Business Operations at School Improvement Partnership, addresses how the information bondholders require of charter schools is changing. Alexis helped to automate the production of...
Arthur Mitchell, a Director at School Improvement Partnership, addresses how COVID and the emphasis on social justice is affecting charter schools and the information bondholders require of them. Arthur serves as the Executive Director of the STEM Equity Alliance, a non-profit corporation focused on creating culturally responsive pedagogical...
Tressa Pankovits, the Emmy-winning author of Charter School Investor and Associate Director of Reinventing America’s Schools, gives her perspective on how policy changes and the effects of COVID and distance learning are affecting the charter school markets. Tressa’s report comes from the Nation’s Capitol as part of the...
Will charter school buildings open in the fall? Were their budgets affected by COVID-19? How have they kept students engaged during the spring and summer? Combing EMMA for this information can be frustrating for even the most experienced and determined muni research analyst. Until now. In its role as Continuing Disclosure Agent for charter school...
According to a recent article in Chief Investment Officer, social bond issuance has quadrupled so far this year. According to S & P, “while the recent surge may have been precipitated by COVID-19, the appeal of social bonds as a sustainable finance instrument may endure long after its effects have subsided.” Municipal high-yield...
Charter schools tend to be small, responsive to community needs, and flexible by design. This allows them to quickly and effectively create, monitor, reflect on, and adjust the kinds of programming and support their students need. Investors in charter school bonds might well wonder what a strong response to the unrest and disruption of spring...
With COVID19 and the related economic fallout causing dramatic loss of revenue for state and local governments, investors in charter school bonds worry that school funding will be cut as governments struggle to balance their budgets. Announcements from several large jurisdictions indicate that hasn’t happened, at least not for fiscal 2021. ...
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