Sentences with phrase «school ballot question»

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Only two school districts in the northwest suburbs put questions on the ballot, and both succeeded.

The park district's proposed referendum question could appear alongside a November ballot request from New Trier High School asking voters to approve $ 89 million in funding for a major renovation of the aging Winnetka campus.

Voters in the city of Albany defeated proposed charter revisions, but the question of spending $ 200 million on a new high school will likely come down to absentee ballots.

Finance board members expect to cut the $ 25,291,300 school spending plan further at their next meeting, to comply with the results of the ballot's two advisory questions.

In November 2003, we were instrumental in defeating the «non-partisan election» ballot question in New York City and the raising of the debt limit for small city school districts.

ALBANY — Voters are being asked to decide three ballot questions on Tuesday: whether to overhaul the state's redistricting procedures, whether to direct the Legislature to go paperless and whether to borrow $ 2 billion to boost technology in schools.

In Michigan, where legislative action on school reform has been put on hold until questions of funding equity have been settled, voters will face two ballot referenda — each with a different sales - tax equation — that could add new funds to the education coffers.

We asked Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty to share thoughts and reactions to the election, during which Republicans maintained control of the House and Senate and — in an important local contest — a ballot question to expand the cap on charter schools was rejected by voters.

This year, «down - ballot» races like Question 2 on expanding the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts and the gubernatorial race in North Carolina are generating particular interest as barometers for where state policy might move.

Raising the Cap on Charter Schools (Fox 25 WXYT, 11/2/16) Harvard Professor of Education Heather Hill, has closely studied ballot question two and is concerned about raising the cap.

But it seems clear that passage of the measure, which appears on the state's Nov. 5 ballot as Proposition 209, would raise questions about a host of programs that public K - 12 schools and colleges offer — from voluntary desegregation efforts to certain tutoring and outreach programs.

The night's conversation will address the upcoming ballot proposal Question 2, which, if enacted, would allow the Massachusetts Board of Education to approve up to 12 new or expanded charter schools each year beginning in January 2017.

With some 30,000 students on charter school waiting lists statewide, 10,000 of them in Boston, Baker made one last pitch at a Roxbury rally the night before the election, framing the ballot question as a battle on behalf of low - income families» «desire and desperation for something better.»

Their first television ad argued that charter expansion — the ballot question would have allowed up to 12 new charters each year beyond existing state caps — would mean a funding boost for all schools.

«I'm encouraged by the fact that charter school supporters are putting a question on charter schools and expanding the cap — especially in underperforming school districts — on the ballot,» Baker told reporters at the State House.

Of course, once Baker and charter school backers decided to take the question to the ballot, an effective political calculus was the only way to make good on that effort on behalf of parents.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.

Governor Charlie Baker, a charter school proponent, said in a Globe interview last month that he would support a ballot question to expand charter access.

In Massachusetts, 34,000 children remain stranded on waitlists for charter schools while the state legislature continues to ignore the demonstrated wishes of their constituents, forcing the question of access to high quality schools to a ballot question this fall.

Fast forward 23 years and it is the threat of a ballot question allowing more charter schools that is stirring Beacon Hill to action.

This is a unique ballot question because it is statewide, but the outcome will impact children and families chiefly in 9 urban communities that need help (of the 403 state school districts).

While numerous schools and municipalities nationwide are grappling with the question, the issue overtook the election in suburbs northwest of Chicago, which was the community's first chance to weigh in at the ballot box.

At the August 2 Aurora School Board Meeting, the Board unanimously approved a bond question for the November ballot.

New Glarus, Jefferson and Marshall are among 11 school districts in the state with referendum questions on the ballot.

The Our Schools Now campaign is a ballot initiative effort that would put a question on the ballot in November 2018 asking Utahns if they would raise their own taxes if they could be sure that money went directly to education with a primary goal of reducing class sizes and improving education turnouts in Utah.

By Reily Connaughton, University of Massachusetts — Amherst, Master of Public Policy, Class of 2018 In 2016, Massachusetts education advocates were divided over a ballot question that would have lifted the cap on the number of charter schools sanctioned by the Commonwealth.

The bulk of the money, $ 990,000, went to Great Schools Massachusetts, a committee set up to support a ballot question about lifting state caps on charter schools, but the question Schools Massachusetts, a committee set up to support a ballot question about lifting state caps on charter schools, but the question schools, but the question failed.

Last spring, Republican lawmakers placed an alternative question on the ballot, known as Initiative 42A — which essentially nullified 42 by asking voters to keep Mississippi's school funding system as it is.

This week's finding pinned the latest lawbreaking on Strong Economy for Growth, which violated several campaign finance laws when campaigning for the 2016 ballot question to expand charter schools.

Massachusetts may have voted down Ballot Question 2, which, had it passed, would have raised the cap on the number of charter schools permitted in the state, but all is not lost.

The real political battle for Bay State voters was a ballot initiative known as «Question 2,» which proposed lifting the state's charter school cap.

It will mark the last time school boards will be able to place ballot questions before voters on a date that doesn't coincide with a regularly scheduled election under new restrictions enacted as part of the 2017 - 19 state budget.

The question belongs on the November ballot, and here's hoping the school board puts it there.

According to the September 09, 2016, filing of the Question 2 ballot committee, Great Schools Massachusetts, other out - of - state billionaire / lobbying nonprofit contributors include the following:

on Massachusetts Ballot Question # 2 — Charter School Industry pours record breaking $ 26 million into stunning loss

There are two types of school questions that can appear on the ballot in Indiana — construction referenda and general fund referenda.

Between 2008 and 2013, 92 school questions appeared on the ballot in Indiana — and voters approved half.

Voters around the state will see questions at the bottom of their ballot asking for an increase to property taxes to fund local schools.

According to published reports, the charter school industry is on track to dump up to $ 18 million into a record - breaking campaign in support of Massachusetts Question 2, a referendum question on this year's ballot that would effectively lift the legislative mandated cap on the number of charter schools in the Commonwealth of MassacQuestion 2, a referendum question on this year's ballot that would effectively lift the legislative mandated cap on the number of charter schools in the Commonwealth of Massacquestion on this year's ballot that would effectively lift the legislative mandated cap on the number of charter schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

School referendum questions became a common ballot measure in Indiana back in 2008, -LSB-...]

Basically, the ballot question asks voters to pay more in property taxes so the schools have more funding.

A volatile political issue in the Nov. 8 election is Question 2 on the ballot that permits the expansion of charter schools to 12 per year.

The proposal looks incremental, but, nationally, this ballot question is seen as a shootout at the OK Corral for charter schools, says Paul Reville, who was then governor Deval Patrick's secretary of education and is now a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

A sign promoting a ballot question to eliminate the cap on charter schools is seen outside a polling station in Dudley Square in Boston, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016.

Students, parent activists and teachers took the stage to celebrate the defeat of Ballot Question 2, which called for a lift to the statewide cap on charter school expansion — a victory that Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni said quashed efforts to privatize public education.

The steady stream of unflattering news, which seems to portray a movement in a tailspin, comes as charter schools are trying to recover from a crushing defeat in November 2016, when state voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot question to accelerate charter expansion.

Buzz about the empowerment zone has been growing since voters in November rejected a ballot question that would have accelerated the expansion of charter schools statewide.

Last week former state Rep. Marty Walz, who campaigned for Great Schools Massachusetts, suggested that if the ballot question failed, the group would push in the Legislature to lift the cap on charter schools in districts where the measure Schools Massachusetts, suggested that if the ballot question failed, the group would push in the Legislature to lift the cap on charter schools in districts where the measure schools in districts where the measure passed.

FESA was the primary source of funding behind the 2016 «Question 2» ballot initiative in Massachusetts, which would have lifted the state cap on charter schools.

Education Week: Lawsuit Challenges Georgia's Ballot Question on Statewide School District http://bit.ly/2dccWQO