Sentences with phrase «ballot measure passed»

In their lawsuits, filed last May, the groups argued that Proposition 39, a state ballot measure passed by voters in 2000, grants charters» access to facilities in...

Critics of charter schools argue that if the Nov. 8 ballot measure passes it could create a notable divide in many cities: The more academically capable students will end up in the charter schools while those with the gravest needs will be left in district schools.

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Battle of the brands: Washington voters will have a chance to pass a ballot measure this week that would require all food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to sport a label.

On Tuesday, San Franciscans will head to the polls to vote on Proposition F, a ballot measure that, if passed, would greatly restrict the ability of residents to rent out their homes and apartments to travelers through Airbnb and similar services.

But the study found that cannabis ballot measures did increase the overall voter turnout in Colorado and Washington in 2012 (though not in Oregon, where the initiative did not pass).

A comparable rush could shortly be under way in Maine, where the state is currently recounting votes after a recreational marijuana ballot measure narrowly passed.

Californians overwhelmingly passed a similar measure, The Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, by ballot initiative last fall.

If you live in a state that has a ballot initiative on Tuesday to label GMO products, please turn out to vote to have such measures passed.

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

The league passed the rule in early 2016 through a ballot measure that secured 95 % of votes from UIL - member school superintendents, the league said in a statement.

While the language of the ballot measure has yet to be determined, the commission passed a resolution for voters to decide whether terms for mayor, public advocate, city comptroller, borough presidents and Council members should revert back to two terms.

Should the measure pass in the Maryland state legislature, it would still require voter approval in the form of a statewide ballot measure.

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

Regardless of where they stand on the ballot measure, she said, if it passes good government groups will be on the front lines pushing for a process that is as fair, transparent, and as democratic as possible.

If the ballot measure does pass, Ladd Bierman of LWV noted, there are many questions that must be addressed in the following legislative session.

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and his partner Sean Eldridge have made a $ 100,000 matching gift to Mainers United for Marriage, the group working to pass a ballot measure legalizing same - sex marriage there in November, the Bangor Daily News reports... Read

Mainers United for Marriage, the gorup working to pass a ballot measure legalizing same - sex marriage in the state, hit their target in a $ 100,000 matching donation challenge offered by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes (pictured) and his partner Sean... Read

Mainers United for Marriage, the gorup working to pass a ballot measure legalizing same - sex marriage in the state, hit their target in a $ 100,000 matching donation challenge offered by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes (pictured) and his partner Sean Eldridge, the Bangor Daily News reports:

Republicans control the redistricting process and will try to firm up West unless a new ballot measure that passed this fall, which seeks to take all political considerations out of the line drawing process, makes such a move impossible.

The measure needs to be passed again by lawmakers next year and could appear on a statewide ballot as soon as 2017.

Three years after California voters passed a ballot measure to raise taxes on corporations and generate clean - energy jobs by funding energy - efficiency projects in schools, barely one - tenth of the promised jobs have been created, and the state has no...

But the state also passed a ballot measure that would hand over the redistricting process to a nonpartisan commission.

To pass, the ballot measure would require approval from a majority of voters who reside in the city, and from a majority of Onondaga County voters who reside outside the city.

Charter supporters threw a Hail Mary pass in the form of a ballot initiative; the reason they had to take such extreme measures was because the teachers have had the legislature in a head lock for a decade.

That state ballot measure was passed by California voters in 2000 and, in...

In addition, 130 local school committees (district school boards) have now passed resolutions opposing the ballot measure.

The Board of Trustees passed a resolution to place a bond measure on the November ballot.

If a measure to increase local parcel taxes for public schools were on the ballot, about half of likely voters (48 %) would vote yes — a level of support far short of the two - thirds majority needed to pass a local parcel tax.

Voter support for Proposition 2, a new version of a state budget rainy day fund, is increasing but is still shy of the majority backing that Gov. Jerry Brown will need to pass his signature ballot measure, according to a new poll.

Among the long list of accomplishments that includes participation in nearly every major education policy decision since the mid-1980s - O'Connell said he is most proud of his role in getting voters to approve a ballot measure that reduced the threshold for passing school bonds to 55 percent.

Moreover, public school advocates know that while ALEC legislators have been successful in getting limited school voucher schemes passed in state houses across the nation, these measures never succeed when they are put to the ballot.

Learn how the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nev., overcame significant barriers and opposition and was able to educate the public about its needs, such that a ballot measure for a tax increase to fund almost $ 800M in capital projects over 8 years passed with close to 57 % of the vote in 2016.

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 passed.

They did so because if the bill failed, it would go to a ballot measure — and, in a national atmosphere in which support for charters was rising among both Republicans and Democrats as well as championed by the Obama administration, the union leaders were convinced that such a ballot measure would pass and leave lasting damage on Massachusetts» public schools.

Voters in Missouri have passed the nation's first statewide ballot measure to protect dogs from the worst abuses at puppy mills, and voters in Arizona resoundingly rejected a legislative power grab on wildlife management.

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.

Since 1994 the trust also has helped states and communities craft and pass more than 330 ballot measures generating almost $ 25 billion in new conservation - related funding.

Half of the local anti-fracking measures on the ballots of towns and counties in California, Ohio and Texas passed.