Item 1.01Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On April 6, 2020, and effective as of March 13, 2020, School Specialty, Inc. (the "Company") entered into (i) the Seventh Amendment to Loan Agreement and Forbearance Agreement among the Company, as borrower, certain of its subsidiaries, as guarantors, the financial institutions party thereto, as lenders and TCW Asset Management Company LLC, as the agent (the "Term Loan Amendment"), and (ii) the Tenth Amendment to Loan Agreement and Forbearance Agreement among the Company, certain of its subsidiary borrowers, Bank of America, N.A. and Bank of Montreal, as lenders, and Bank of America, N.A., as agent for the lenders (the "ABL Amendment," and together with the Term Loan Amendment, the "Amendments"), in order to, among other things: (1) extend the outside date of the Forbearance Period (as defined in the Amendments) to April 30, 2020; (2) to delay the Scheduled Term Loan Installment Payment (as defined in the Term Loan Amendment) and interest due on March 31, 2020 to June 30, 2020; (3) require the entry into on or before April 30, 2020 a restructuring support agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Agent and the Required Lenders (each as defined in the Amendments), which shall include, among other things, milestones in connection with a potential restructuring or sale transaction of the Company and an agreement among Agent, the Lenders and the Company regarding the terms, scope, and fees to be incurred in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereunder; and (4) to increase the Borrowing Base under the ABL Facility by adding the Seasonal Formula Amount (as defined in the ABL Amendment) during the fiscal months of February, March, April, May and June.

The Term Loan Amendment and the ABL Amendment are filed as exhibits herewith and incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing descriptions of the Term Loan Amendment and the ABL Amendment do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by the full text of such agreements.

Item 9.01.Financial Statements and Exhibits.



(d) Exhibits

     Exhibit No.                              Description

         10.1          Seventh Amendment to Loan Agreement and Forbearance
                       Agreement, dated as of April 6, 2020 and effective as of
                       March 13, 2020, among the Company, as borrower, certain
                       of its subsidiaries, as guarantors, the financial
                       institutions party thereto, as lenders  and TCW Asset
                       Management Company LLC, as the agent.

         10.2          Tenth Amendment to Loan Agreement and Forbearance
                       Agreement, dated as of April 6, 2020 and effective as of
                       March 13, 2020, among the Company, certain of its
                       subsidiary borrowers, Bank of America, N.A. and Bank of
                       Montreal, as lenders and Bank of America, N.A., as agent
                       for the lenders.

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