Sentences with phrase «ballot initiative»

The refunds were from a $ 60 per teacher assessment used to fund a $ 50 million campaign to defeat ballot initiatives in the state.

Proposal 3 was the only state ballot initiative on renewable energy this year, and as a result both sides in the battle attracted ample funding from around the nation.

The court case is the trailer for the next series of ballot initiatives and school board races.

About half of the 50 states allow for ballot initiatives.

A proposed ballot initiative for 2018 to advance better and more equitable funding of public schools.

That's what the lead proponent of a proposed state ballot initiative wants to know.

However, voucher - type proposals have not been successful in statewide ballot initiatives.

The relative success of the national teachers unions in ballot initiative campaigns and legislative battles can greatly affect a state's bottom line.

However, twice in the past, they overwhelmingly rejected ballot initiatives that would have allowed vouchers.

We engaged several ballot initiatives across the state as well.

Winning a legislative battle or ballot initiative does not make the other side change its mind or go away.

But a landmark ballot initiative has been launched that could soon allow voters to change that.

The bottom line is that marijuana ballot initiatives can drive more people to the polls, but they don't seem to help either party or affect the number of young voters.

He has eliminated the statewide ballot initiative meant to save workers rights and wages.

For School Libraries Public library districts come to mind first when considering ballot initiatives, but they are by no means the only types of libraries where voter education and campaign support matters.

They said the proposed ballot initiative would be discriminatory to gay and lesbian citizens.

You know we have passed more than 25 state ballot initiatives.

First, voucher advocates should avoid statewide ballot initiatives and instead work through the state legislature.

If the measure passes, Connecticut would join fellow New England states Massachusetts and Maine, where ballot initiatives passed in November.

When vouchers were proposed by ballot initiative in California in 1993, for instance, unions were able to deploy $ 30 million in today's dollars to defeat the initiative.

A proposed California ballot initiative aimed at seniors could help ease the state's housing crises, reports CNBC.

This marks the continuation of a trend in the U.S.: When faced with ballot initiatives that support vouchers, voters repeatedly have said: «no, thank you.»

Nevada — scene of the Las Vegas concert massacre that left 58 people dead in October — dropped from a C - minus to a D this year, Cutilletta said, because a 2016 voter - approved ballot initiative requiring that private - party transfers of firearms be subject to a background check has not taken effect.

THE charter schools ballot initiative proposed for the November election was born out of parental frustration with the Legislature's failure to move on a key education reform.

Laura Preston with the Assn. of California School Administrators said concerns had grown in the Capitol over the noisy divide between teachers unions and other educational organizations that could impede efforts to pass Proposition 30, the November ballot initiative backed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Arizona, California and Florida have passed similar measures through ballot initiatives, and Maine, Colorado and Oregon have passed related laws in their state legislatures.

In a fight that showed the flaws in California's ballot initiative process and the sheer nerve of PG&E;, the state's largest utility, clean energy and local control has won.

He spent about $ 50 million in an unsuccessful effort to pass Proposition 87, the November ballot initiative aimed at taxing oil companies to fund alternative energy initiatives.

Reforming the redistricting process where possible, including supporting ballot initiatives to create fairer redistricting processes in the states

Ohio — Gov. Bob Taft (R) is retiring: The failure of the four ballot initiatives backed by «Reform Ohio Now» on Nov. 8 should be sobering for Democrats who believed passage of the measures would be an early sign of big gains in the Buckeye State next year.

It was a popular - vote ballot initiative in response to the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.

Veering from an earlier push for broad changes to the way Oregon pays for its schools, Gov. John Kitzhaber recently unveiled a modest set of proposed ballot initiatives designed to shore up education funding without raising taxes.

One possible motivating factor is the big ballot initiative coming next Tuesday, which could remove heavy taxes on third - party residential and C&I solar installations.

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Due to the advocacy efforts of Georgia PTA, the proposed ballot initiative failed — with 60 % of the voters in the state voting «no» — effectively ensuring that families and local elected officials continue to have control over their students» education.

«Affirmative Action Foes Push Ballot Initiatives; Activists, With Eyes on November, Focus on Five States»: Today's edition of The Washington Post contains an article that begins, «Sixteen months after voters in Michigan voted to kill affirmative action in the public sphere, opponents of preferences based on race and gender are pushing five more states to ban the practice.»

This whole medicinal pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest by federal officials for possession or cultivation.

CHICAGO: This week, community organizers and labor partners in Chicago passed a non-binding ballot initiative calling for the city's schools to be returned to the control of an elected school board.

The Massachusetts vote, like many such local ballot initiatives, will be seen as a test case for the bigger national question.

15) Massachusetts: Activists have until Thursday to file ballot initiative language for the November 2016 election.

The Alliance played a leading role in a successful ballot initiative campaign for the passage of Proposition A which banned cockfighting, bear baiting and other fighting / baiting ventures in Missouri.

Months after federal cap - and - trade legislation died in the Senate and days before California voters will decide on a fiercely fought ballot initiative to deep - freeze the state's global - warming - prevention law, state regulators released hundreds of pages of rules on Friday for how the law is to be applied, industry by industry.

«We think it is a question of when, not if, the state will adopt a carbon pricing program,» said Kyle Murphy, executive director of Carbon Washington, which sponsored an unsuccessful carbon tax ballot initiative in 2016.

Olson strikes a chord similar to Ken Mehlman, Bush's 2004 campaign manager whose effort was greatly assisted by traditional marriage ballot initiatives in key states like Ohio but who has since come out of the closet to favor the nullification of those results.

In Mt. Prospect, park district board members blamed the size of the controversial Harper proposal for drawing out voters likely to oppose any tax - raising ballot initiative.

Carbon Washington's next step will be to explore potential ballot initiatives that will reduce emissions and accelerate the transition to clean energy — in an effective, equitable, economically sound, and politically viable manner.

The 2016 Massachusetts charter - school ballot initiative illustrated the reality of this dilemma.