Sentences with phrase «ballot initiative calling»

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.

On top of this shift a new ballot initiative called Our Schools Now aims to get even more money into Utah's schools.

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The Legislature put that on the ballot, with a grudging nod from the NRA, to stave off a voter initiative calling for a seven - day ban.

Last November, Maine voters approved, by a slim majority, a ballot initiative to adopt a voting system called «instant runoff.»

The study was conducted in Miami neighborhoods that had supported an earlier anti-LGBT ballot initiative, and it used a process called «deep canvassing» as a way to interact with people to change attitudes.

When Hollywood director Rob Reiner proposed a ballot initiative (Proposition 82 in 2006) calling for an income tax increase to make preschool universal and free for all of the state's four - year - olds, the governor sided with opponents, who noted that the measure would use precious potential tax revenue to pay for a service that a majority of the state's youngsters already received.

Groups consider trying to put charter - school initiative on ballot As prospects for a bill allowing charter schools dims in the Washington Legislature, some in the so - called «education reform» movement are considering compromise options or again asking the voters about it.

Concurrent to approval of SB 114 by the Senate Education Committee, the Secretary of State's office announced that proponents of a separate initiative calling for a $ 9 billion school facilities bond to go on the same ballot were cleared to begin collecting the signatures needed to put that measure before voters.

On another front, charter industry proponents find they face stiffer opposition than anticipated in Massachusetts where a ballot initiative in November, called Question 2, calls for lifting the cap on the number of charters allowed in the state.

An initiative to do that, called a «split - roll tax,» raising an estimated $ 4 billion for K - 12 schools and community colleges, will likely be on the November ballot.

TU teachers have influenced the state ballot initiative that allows the operation of charter schools, swung union votes, and received calls during session from swing Democrats on controversial education policy issues.

Join a «mass migration» to protect the Dreamers; A new report from Power U and the Advancement Project calls out the Miami - Dade public schools on school climate measures; Testimony delivered by song in Philadelphia; Dark Money at issue in the Massachusetts charter ballot initiative.

And so Carbon WA, as the advocates of I - 732 called themselves, fashioned its ballot initiative around cuts to the state's regressive sales tax.

A coalition of environmental groups, called Floridians for Solar Choice, has secured more than 250,000 signatures of Florida residents toward proposing a ballot initiative to end this anti-solar law.

Sen. Steve Farley called the APS / Kavanagh measure, «a cynical maneuver to try to confuse voters at the ballot so that they think this is the real clean energy initiative as opposed to one that's being run by advocates at the same time.»

When voters in California head to the ballot in November, they will also face the issue of a discount initiative for auto insurance, called the 2012 Automobile Insurance Discount Act, which was over 99 percent funded by the chairman of Mercury Insurance.

The proposed ballot initiative, called the Continuous Coverage Auto Insurance Discount Act, would require those who had auto coverage lapses to pay higher premiums once they resumed coverage.

The proposed initiative, called Fair Affordable Insurance Rates (FAIR), is backed by consumer groups the Consumer Watchdog and Consumer Federation of America (CFA), and requires 305,000 signatures of Michigan voters by May 26, 2010 in order to appear on the state ballot in November.