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When former Minnesota State Senator Ember Reichgott Junge traveled the tumultuous journey to pass the first charter school law in the nation on June 4, 1991, the issue of charter school facilities was rarely mentioned in any debate. “Legislators assumed that charter schools would have access to existing school facilities or other buildings,” she...
According to the School Improvement Partnership Database, Pennsylvania’s free-standing charter schools with high-yield municipal bonds outstanding average over 126 Days Cash on Hand for FY 2020 – an increase of 12.5% from FY 2018. This level of liquidity is almost three times the level required by financial covenants which tend to be in...
School Improvement Partnership: Social Bond Questionnaire Is the percentage of economically disadvantaged students enrolled in your charter school above 60%? Is the academic growth of those students higher than that of such students enrolled in the host district? Does your charter school have a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color)...
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...
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