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Colorado Charter School Deal Marks a First for the State.

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(From The Bond Buyer)

Byline: Elizabeth Albanese

The Colorado Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority will go to market later this month with an $8.2 million offering of unrated charter school revenue bonds -- a deal that will finance the state's first true developer-driven charter school.

The tax-exempt bonds, scheduled to price the week of June 13, will finance the Banning Lewis Ranch Academy -- a K-8 facility that marks the first of as many as eight charter schools expected to be financed with assistance from California-based Makar Development Inc. "This deal will truly be the first developer-driven charter school product here in Colorado," said Russ Caldwell, a senior vice president with D.A. Davidson & Co., the sole underwriter for the transaction. "We have had deals in the past that have had some developer assistance, but this deal has bells and whistles that no charter school has enjoyed in Colorado." Caldwell said the deal benefits from such state charter school finance initiatives as the backing of the state intercept program and a per-student facilities stipend. In addition,…

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