Sentences with phrase «by voter referendums»

While more than 13 schools have either launched or expanded school voucher and tax credit programs in the past two years, efforts by National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates to shut them down, either by voter referendums (as in Florida) or through lawsuits, are reminders of the challenges to expanding choice that remain.

Together these state officials and advocates remain determined to preserve the ability of their respective jurisdictions to protect consumers by enforcing existing rate caps that were either enacted by voter referendum or state legislation.

It makes the amendment, which must be approved by two separately elected Legislatures and then by a voter referendum, a pretty broad stroke for altering the existing laws.

It's a shame that he has chosen to deny the public the opportunity to have their own say in the matter of fiscal reform in November by voter referendum.

The holdout senators this week released a list of budget demands that included expanding access to private voucher schools outside Milwaukee and Racine, operational changes to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, requiring counties or municipalities that enact wheel taxes to do so by voter referendum and moving up the effective date of the budget's repeal of the state's prevailing wage requirement.

The Children's Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami - Dade County.

Not exact matches

Last October, Catalonia's leaders defied the Spanish government by holding an independence referendum; 90 % of Catalans voted sí (although only 42 % of registered voters went to the polls).

AggregateIQ is also under investigation by privacy commissioners in Ottawa, B.C. and the United Kingdom for its alleged role in the controversy that has engulfed Cambridge Analytica, which has been accused of improperly using private Facebook information from millions of users to influence voters and give the «Leave» side a win in the U.K.'s 2016 Brexit referendum.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

The National Register is used to produce the preliminary voters list for federal elections, by - elections, and referenda.

In yet another unexpected twist to the Greek drama, Greek voters delivered a resounding «No» vote in Sunday's referendum, strongly rejecting the previous offer by Greece's creditors.

Kateb is explicit that dignity overrides democratic process: «It is absurd that the voters of California, by majority vote in a referendum, could have decided that a judicially recognized right that allows people of the same sex to marry could be voided by their will.»

Without any supporting testimony or findings of fact, Justice Kennedy managed to divine that the sponsors of the referendum and the voters who ratified it must have been motivated solely by bias.

They parallel the provisions of many state constitutions in this country and popular initiatives such as the Cardinal Bernardin Amendment, recently approved in a referendum by over 80 percent of Cook County, Illinois, voters, to make health care a right.

By statewide referendum in 1991, voters in the state of Washington had reaffirmed the provision of the criminal code that outlawed persons in its jurisdiction from «knowingly causing or aiding other persons in ending their lives.»

These could be located only in counties in which the voters, by referendum, approved pari - mutuel betting.

In 2011, voters overwhelmingly passed a referendum in favor of allowing sports betting by a massive 65 - 35 margin.

Although voters approved an advisory referendum in March to fund the two - level center, residents are divided over the proposed site, which is bounded almost entirely by homes.

Although all of the Oak Lawn votes had not yet been counted late Wednesday, voters there were rejecting the measure by better than a 2 - 1 ratio, stunning Park District officials who had seen them overwhelmingly approve an advisory referendum on the matter in November 2004.

Voters ratified the referendum by a 2 - to - 1 margin, and today, the Fox Valley Park District continues to carry forth the will of its residents by reinvesting those dollars into the communities from where they originated.

Plans for the force have been put on hold, however, by 531 residents who have signed a petition to put the issue before voters in a referendum in November.

Two hotly debated «pass the pool» referendum measures were sunk in 1997 by voters who did not want higher property taxes to pay for a proposed multimillion - dollar family aquatic center on Park District land at Hunt Club Park on Hunt Club Road.

An $ 18 million referendum measure to finance capital projects and buy the Maryknoll Seminary was defeated by voters in November.

The golf course came under new ownership in 1944, when Northwestern University purchased the property and took over operations until 1972, when it was purchased by the Wilmette Park District via a $ 4.2 million referendum that was supported by local voters, officials said.

The three referendum questions proposed by the district would ask voters whether the district should build a $ 4.5 million swimming facility; whether the district should buy land to the east of Newton Park for expansion; and whether a task force should be formed to study the need, best location and financial alternatives of a new pool facility.

Alarmed that the site might become a gravel pit proposed by the Chicago - based mining firm Material Services, the Cary Park District also filed an eminent domain lawsuit seeking ownership, and district voters approved a bond issue in an April referendum to fund the purchase.

The tax proposal, approved by 57 percent of the voters in an April 13 referendum, will add $ 870,000 a year to the Park District coffers, providing the money needed to buy the coveted Hoffman farm and dedicate it to open space and recreation.

Legislation to make it easier for voters to get a bond referendum placed on the ballot was signed into law by Gov. James Thompson.

In another closely watched election in Lake County, voters in Gurnee defeated by nearly a 2 - 1 ratio a referendum proposal that would have dissolved the village «s park district.

«The Forest Preserve District can not buy all open space in the county,» said Fagan, referring to the district's $ 75 million open - space referendum proposal approved by voters in November.

TINLEY PARK — A scale model of a proposed new recreation center, made by students at Prairie View Junior High School in Tinley Park, is helping voters decide whether to support a bond referendum proposal for the real thing.

The idea was forwarded last month by Trustee Scott Berg in the wake of voters» overwhelming rejection of a referendum issue to create a Lake in the Hills park district.

Two «pass the pool» referendum proposals were sunk last year by voters, who by their vote said they didn't want higher taxes to pay for an aquatic center.

The Park District's original plan to build a recreation center on land adjacent to the Lions Community Center was shot down by voters in an April referendum.

A constitutional amendment must be approved by two separately elected sessions of the Legislature and then goes to voters in a ballot referendum.

The Liberal Democrats have been making a concerted effort to oust Kate Hoey out of Vauxhall mainly by alerting voters to the fact that Hoey spent much of the EU referendum hanging out with Nigel Farage.

I have previously stated I would support a referendum by New York voters.

Research released this morning by the Electoral Society found just 24 % of voters feel «well» or «very well» informed about the EU referendum.

The constitutional bill is firmly anchored in the will of the people because (a) the bill fully reflects the declaration of the 2010 National Assembly at which every Icelander 18 years or older had an equal chance of being invited to take a seat and (b) it was approved by 2/3 of the voters in a national referendum against the wishes of much of the discredited political class.

By holding a referendum on the EU they hope to take the EU off the electoral agenda and avoid defections from eurosceptic voters.

The comments by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie during a joint appearance at the Times Union's media center in Albany come as voters this November will consider a referendum whether to hold a constitutional convention.

Fourth, Parliament held a national referendum on the bill in 2012 where the bill was accepted by 67 % of the voters and its individual key provisions were approved by 67 % to 83 % of the voters.

The plan would be considered by voters in a referendum this November.

The unpredicted support for Brexit by over half of voters in the UK referendum illustrates these characteristics of the movements we model in the book, with the resistance to traditional forms of organization.

Councils must call a local referendum to get the approval of voters if they want to put bills up by more than 2 per cent, under rules set by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.»

California voters, facing even more severe transit raids than New York, put a stop to the practice by approving Prop 22 in a referendum last Tuesday.

An academic study, surveying 5,000 Scottish voters soon after the referendum, found that the majority for No was formed by an «unusual alliance» of the very young, average earners, Protestants and women.

The amendment, which passed overwhelmingly in a voter referendum last month, is called a «a major victory in the battle against corruption» by the mailer, obtained by Capital Tonight.

The British voters voted by roughly 52 - 48 per cent to leave the EU in the referendum called by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.

I was told multiple times during the referendum by puzzled friends that I was the only «Leave» voter they knew.