June 4, 2012, 12:05 AM
As voters around the state decide on more than two dozen local school bond measures tomorrow, the campaigns promoting many of them are funded largely by businesses that stand to benefit financially. On local ballots from San Diego to Sonoma County, 28 school bond measures would ...
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May 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
Leading financial firms over the past five years have donated $1.8 million to successful school bond measures in California. In almost every instance, school district officials hired those same underwriters to sell the bonds for a profit.
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June 17, 2011, 12:05 AM
California school districts are using construction bond money to cover day-to-day operations and in other ways that regulators say misuse taxpayer money and violate state and federal law. In recent weeks, the state attorney general's office and county treasurers have issued warning letters...
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