{"id":43,"date":"2017-10-26T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2017-11-14T22:03:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T22:03:35","slug":"greathearts-arizona-qualifies-for-second-round-of-enhancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/greathearts-arizona-qualifies-for-second-round-of-enhancement\/","title":{"rendered":"GreatHearts Arizona Qualifies For Second Round of Enhancement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2017, <strong>GreatHearts Arizona<\/strong> offered its second bond issue enhanced by the Arizona Public School Credit Enhancement Program.\u00a0 This program allows the bond issues carrying the enhancement to receive a AA- rating by Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s.\u00a0 This issue, totaling $19.5 million, will be the second time that GreatHearts has used the program.\u00a0 The funds will allow GreatHearts to acquire and renovate a campus for its Archway Classical Academy &#8211; Scottsdale, providing over 600 new seats for that academy.\u00a0 Archway Scottsdale is one of the highest performing elementary schools in the state, and now will be located adjacent to their Scottsdale Preparatory Academy, which serves older grades in the Scottsdale area.\u00a0 Earlier in 2017 GreatHearts issued about\u00a0 $34 million in bonds enhanced by the State&#8217;s program for expansion of their Maryvale and Veritas campuses, which added about 1,000 seats to the network.\u00a0 GreatHearts carries a BBB- underlying rating, which was affirmed with this issue, and to date is the only investment grade organization enhanced under the State&#8217;s program.\u00a0 Buck Financial has served as financial adviser to GreatHearts since 2014, and with this issue will have assisted the Arizona network with approximately $180 million in tax-exempt bonds.\u00a0 GreatHearts provides a classical liberal arts education with the goal of developing great-hearted leaders, and we are proud to be able to work with such a high-quality organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2017, GreatHearts Arizona offered its second bond issue enhanced by the Arizona Public School Credit Enhancement Program.\u00a0 This program allows the bond issues carrying the enhancement to receive a AA- rating by Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s.\u00a0 This issue, totaling $19.5 million, will be the second time that GreatHearts has used the program.\u00a0 The funds&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/greathearts-arizona-qualifies-for-second-round-of-enhancement\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buckfinancial.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}