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We are a nonprofit Political Action Committee chartered to work exclusively on local library ballot initiatives.

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.

The teachers unions also spend more than any other special interest group on elections and ballot initiatives.

Weingarten was referring to the resounding defeat of two ballot initiatives: One in Massachusetts that would have allowed for the expansion of charter schools, and another in Georgia that would have allowed for state takeovers of struggling schools, presumably easing their conversion to charter schools.

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.

When people go to the ballot stations next week and cast their vote for school funding ballot initiatives, they may cast their ballot as a «yay» vote.

Unions exhibited their financial prowess in 2008 when labor - related ballot initiatives resulted in both private - and public - sector unions contributing $ 26 million.

As Schott has expanded its grantmaking and advocacy across the country, from ballot initiatives in Mississippi to participatory budgeting in California, Schott has begun to leverage its research capacity to focus attention not just on the struggles children face but also on proactive policy solutions.

Since 2004, K12 Inc. and its employees have pumped almost $ 1.3 million into state - level politics in 23 states (as of 2012), including contributions to candidates for office, party committees, and ballot initiatives.

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

(Calif.) Supporters of the three ballot initiatives of most interest to the state's public schools are leaving nothing to chance — burying the opposition under millions of dollars of campaign spending.

In 2013, after Harris's investigation concluded, California levied a record $ 16 million penalty on groups linked to the Koch brothers that had secretly funneled money to two California ballot initiatives.

A less sunny view is based on elections results in «blue» Massachusetts and «red» Georgia, where voters in both states soundly rejected pro-school choice ballot initiatives.

Polls measuring sentiment on ballot initiatives taken a month or more before Election Day can often understate opposition.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and software developer Ron K. Unz has set off sparks in recent election seasons by financing campaigns to get rid of bilingual education through various statewide ballot initiatives.

About half of the 50 states allow for ballot initiatives.

Proposed ballot initiatives on teacher tenure and the political use of union dues qualified last week for the next statewide elections in California.

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

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

Then there are marque ballot initiatives.

But a growing number are joined by entities whose main focus is lobbying and politics: 501c4 organizations and political action committees, free to spend limitlessly on lobbying for legislation, getting friendly candidates elected, advancing ballot initiatives, and more.

Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes; supporting political organizations or candidates for public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to undermine public education.»

In cases of ballot initiatives, unions have a bloc of votes they can count on should they need to press for one outcome or another.

Almost every year, voters in that community are faced with ballot initiatives that must pass in order to fund critical enhancements to schools, such as fixing boilers or other infrastructure problems.

If students demonstrate competencies in these areas, they will likely succeed in a career or higher education environment, and they can transfer these skills to vote knowledgeably on candidates and ballot initiatives, be a good juror, effectively communicate concerns to elected leaders and mediate conflicts that arise in the community or workplace.

Given the Constitution's protection of the right to vote, the equal protection clause also would support a federal right to an education that prepares students to be competent voters and civic participants — enabling them, for instance, to comprehend complex ballot initiatives and serve competently on a jury, as education law scholar and litigator Michael Rebell has contended.

Tax hikes that would have raised more money for education in Illinois were voted down in 48 of 60 local school district referendums, or 80 percent of the ballot initiatives held across the state on Nov. 5.

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

Expect this trend to continue — labeling bills or ballot initiatives have been introduced in 26 states, according to the advocacy group Food Democracy Now!.

After two states have passed GE labeling bills and more than 30 are poised to consider similar labeling bills and ballot initiatives, the food and biotech industry have goat - roped some members of Congress into introducing legislation to block state GE labeling laws.

After two states have passed GE labeling bills and more than 30 are poised to consider similar labeling bills and ballot initiatives, the food and...

The next big round of ballot initiatives to legalize cannabis in states other than Washington and Colorado could happen as soon as three years from now, in the 2016 presidential election.

Chaired by Eric Holder, the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, NDRC is the first - ever strategic hub for redistricting focused on winning targeted elections and ballot initiatives, advancing legal action, and building the infrastructure to achieve a fairer redistricting process.

In addition to our primary target states, NDRC is watching an additional 8 states that are notable for redistricting, including 3 gubernatorial races, 5 legislative chambers and 4 ballot initiatives.

NDRC is targeting 12 states during the 2018 election cycle, including 9 gubernatorial races, 20 legislative chambers, 2 ballot initiatives, and 2 down - ballot races.

By getting involved in your local Green chapter and online, we will elect more officials, run more ballot initiatives, be visibly in solidarity with justice movements, achieve ballot access quickly, and be a network of communities resisting two - party electoral oppression.

The first is that Cuomo has made himself the first major elected New York state official to advocate the $ 15 minimum wage and the plan he supports is comparable to those passed into law in Seattle and Los Angeles and proposed in ballot initiatives in Washington, D.C. and California.

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.

He is currently embroiled in an all - out campaign to pass four ballot initiatives in a special election on Nov. 8 — none of which is ahead in the polls at the moment.

This all changed when the Party began to support candidates that ignored ballot initiatives and sought an extension of voter - backed term limits.

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.

In Ohio, the statewide petition drive deadline for ballot initiatives seeking ballot access in 2012 is July 4, 2012.

New York now joins the ranks of 16 other states which have done so through resolutions and ballot initiatives.

Ballot initiatives in three Bay Area localities — San Francisco, Oakland and Albany, CA — could join their neighbor Berkeley in imposing a 1 - cent - per - ounce tax on sugar - sweetened beverages like Coca - Cola and Pepsi.

He has been spending millions of dollars to support House, US Senate and gubernatorial candidates on both sides of the aisle, as well as on various ballot initiatives across the country this cycle.

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

The convention question is one of three statewide ballot initiatives on the backs ballots Tuesday.

Hell, in the US all full legalizations have been through ballot initiatives, which are entirely the voters» decision.