Sentences with phrase «ballot measures failed»

[UPDATE: Both ballot measures failed, proving that consumers still do not understand the severity of this issue.]

The ballot measure failed.

As the Boston Globe reports, a recent poll «has the ballot measure failing by 11 points overall.»

Not exact matches

All four were unsuccessful, including Friday morning's dramatic 2 a.m. vote that failed when Sen. John McCain cast his ballot against the measure.

First - unlike the convoluted constitutional ballot measures we see in the voting booth each November, these are going to have to be presented as either one entire batch of changes (almost guaranteed to fail because everybody can find something serious enough to disagree with) or as individual questions for people to affirm or deny.

The rally, headlined by Sen. Terry Gipson, Senate hopeful Justin Wagner and Assembly candidate Andrew Falk, comes after a half - dozen candidates for state Senate failed to qualify for the Women's Equality Party, the new ballot line formed this year meant to boost the package of measures proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013.

Paterson also says people should see opportunity in defeats like the ballot measure in Maine: «I think there's this feeling that if legislation fails that it's this colossal loss for the cause.

But even a local ballot measure to sustain school funding in this, the highest - performing district in the state, failed last year when antitax advocates mobilized to oppose it.

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.

I - 884 wasn't the only failed education measure on the ballot Tuesday.

Measure O (Los Angeles County)-- a $ 485,000,000 tax, placed on the November 3, 2015 ballot by the Walnut Valley Unified School District failed.

Notably, school districts with recently failed mill levy ballot measures, had success this year.

The New York Times: Massachusetts Ballot Measure on Charter School Expansion Fails http://nyti.ms/2fDzrN8

The Massachusetts operation, called Families for Excellent Schools - Advocacy, a pro-charter group, was hit with a record $ 426,500 fine for failing to disclose its donors related to a 2016 Massachusetts ballot campaign — a race that became the most expensive ballot measure in state history.

In Michigan, she supported a ballot measure on vouchers that failed.

The issue even made it to the ballot box in 2016 when HISD added a measure meant to put pressure on the state legislature to change its school funding system after lawsuits failed to do the same.

The ballot measure, which would have led to a new state agency with its own state school superintendent appointed by the governor, failed by a 3 - to - 2 margin.

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.

Unfortunately, due to low voter turnout and confusion about language on the ballot issue, the measure failed, so it was back to the drawing board.

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.

A ballot measure is likely if lawmakers fail to act.

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.