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School Improvement Partnership is highlighting the causes or triggers of defaults on municipal high yield charter school bonds in a weekly series entitled THE TOP TEN TRIGGERS OF CHARTER SCHOOL BOND DEFAULTS. In case you missed it, Risk # 10 was School Safety; Risk # 9, Construction Risk; Risk # 8, Shifting State Support for Charter Schools; Risk...
School Improvement Partnership is highlighting the causes or triggers of defaults on municipal high-yield charter school bonds in a weekly series entitled THE TOP TEN TRIGGERS OF CHARTER SCHOOL BOND DEFAULTS. In case you missed it, Risk # 10 was School Safety; Risk # 9, Construction Risk; Risk # 8, Shifting State Support for Charter Schools; Risk...
School Improvement Partnership is highlighting the causes or triggers of defaults on municipal charter school bonds in a weekly series entitled THE TOP TEN TRIGGERS OF CHARTER SCHOOL BOND DEFAULTS. In case you missed it, Risk # 10 was School Safety; Risk # 9, Construction Risk; Risk # 8, Shifting State Support for Charter Schools; Risk # 7,...
High-yield municipal bonds for charter schools have a 5% default rate. School Improvement Partnership is reviewing the causes or triggers for such defaults in a series entitled THE TOP TEN TRIGGERS OF CHARTER SCHOOL BOND DEFAULTS. We are exploring one trigger per week over the ten weeks, leading up to the most common cause of charter school bond...
Introduction. Why should charter school bond investors be concerned about school leadership at the CEO and Board level as long as it is stable? One might ask the bondholders for a Detroit charter school, an institution that had to draw from its debt service reserve fund despite having a stable Board with many members holding their same seats for...
With its focus on transparency and accountability in the high-yield charter school bond market, School Improvement Partnership is retained by dozens of public charter schools across the country to perform continuing disclosure reporting. From that work has emerged our assessment of the TOP TEN TRIGGERS OF CHARTER SCHOOL BOND DEFAULTS. We will...
A charter management organization (CMO) with 13 schools borrowed $26 million to complete new campuses for three of its schools. The CMO signed a design-build construction contract for more than $18 million. However, the project came in $1 million over budget. The CMO paid for the cost overruns out of its operating budget, failing its financial...
With its focus on transparency and accountability in the high-yield charter school bond market, School Improvement Partnership is retained by dozens of public charter schools across the country to perform continuing disclosure reporting. From that work has emerged our assessment of the TOP TEN TRIGGERS OF CHARTER SCHOOL BOND DEFAULTS. We will...
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