Sentences with phrase «ballot initiative failed»

If these ballot initiatives fail, budget cuts will force public schools» hands in making more tough decisions, and it may take decades to recover if they do at all.

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Or like the failed ballot initiative in Massachusetts to lift the cap.

Although each initiative failed at the ballot box, they collectively laid the foundation for approval of the state's charter law in 2012.

As proof of general resistance to school choice, Fischel references failed voucher ballot initiatives in California and Michigan.

Lawmakers failed to put school - construction bond initiative on November ballot, despite arguments that more funds are needed to accommodate reduced classes.

The ballot also discovered that: 96 per cent of respondents lacked confidence in proposed Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) measures to reduce workload in the 2016 - 17 session; 94 per cent of respondents said they lacked confidence in the SQA's plans to reduce workload; and the Tackling Bureaucracy Report, a Scottish government initiative from March 2015, had failed to reduce teachers» workload in 96 per cent of schools.

Both the increase in applicants for more than one charter and an increased number of total applicants show that the headline - grabbing ballot initiative to open more charters managed to raise interest in them, even though it failed to raise their legislated limit.

The DeVos family did support a 2000 ballot initiative that would have changed the constitution to allow for vouchers, but it failed.

Sinquefield also backed a similar ballot initiative two years ago that failed to collect enough signatures.

This past year after the state legislature once again failed to pass new laws similar to the ballot initiative proposals, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, Director of Agriculture Dr. Jon Hagler and Attorney General Chris Koster launched a program known as «Operation Bark Alert».

After an intense lobbying spree and threats from Governor Jerry Brown to take the measure directly to voters via ballot initiative should it fail to pass, Senate Bill 32 (SB 32) was approved by the California legislature yesterday.

The nation's first state ballot measure to impose a carbon tax on fossil fuels failed Tuesday on a crowded slate of statewide initiatives in Washington.

During that meeting, Kris wanted my assessment of why did the Washington state ballot initiative 732 failed during the recent November election.

A proposed carbon tax also failed recently in a ballot initiative in Washington state, in part because it divided the left — with some liberals wanting to use any revenue to invest in clean energy and other social causes rather than to return it to the public.

Their petition drive has apparently failed to get two vaunted initiatives onto the November ballot there.

In 2010, a citizen initiative similar to the current proposal failed to garner enough valid signatures to appear on the ballot.