Sentences with phrase «do voter education»

«In the future I will do voter education for people to understand and I wont make that mistake again and will be picking one office instead of two.»

Not exact matches

Most voters don't expect to receive protection from the military for free, or demand that others to pay for the Department of Education, Medicare transfers to the states, and all other federally - funded programs.

how about you libs asking your black voters to value an education (like Obama did)?

The 2004 election cycle saw a dramatic rise in the number and size of nonprofit organizations that bought TV ads, organized voter turnout drives and conducted political «education» campaigns that were effectively working on behalf of (or against) one candidate or party, and because they used «soft money» in the process, their donors weren't limited in how much they could give and didn't fall under the strict disclosure rules required when trying to influence an election.

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

On six — reducing corruption, improving public education, balancing upstate and downstate needs, improving infrastructure, improving the economy and planning for New York's future — only between 23 and 35 percent of voters say Cuomo has done an excellent or good job.

But voters don't want to see Cuomo setting education policy.

Voters say Slaughter will do a better job in Washington representing them on health care, education and the war in Afghanistan, and they are more closely divided on whether she or Brooks would serve them better when it comes to jobs, taxes and the federal budget deficit.

«I saw that meeting as my doing my job of trying to find a way to convey, in any way I could, that the public and even his voters had fierce opposition to the education cuts,» she said, adding that she told Bannon their polling showed half of Trump's voters opposed his cuts.

On key issues facing the state — reducing corruption, improving public education, balancing upstate and upstate concerns, improving infrastructure, growing the economy and planning for the state's future — only between 23 percent and 35 percent of voters believe the governor has done a good or excellent job.

His recent public spats with teaching unions and Ofsted appear to have damaged the education secretary with 57 % per cent of all voters now say he is doing a bad job with just 21 % saying he is doing well.

In 1967, the last time New York held a constitutional convention, voters turned down an all - or - nothing package of amendments mainly over one amendment having to do with public support for religious education.

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has told ITV that voters simply «didn't trust Labour» to deliver on social justice values when it came to election day.

In Siena's poll, voters said Cuomo would do a better job on an array of issues from taxes to education.

NEW BRITAIN — Local voters on Oct. 7 get what may be their best chance of the campaign to learn what their state legislative candidates want to do about education, jobs, the environment, taxes and more.

He said the Commission was doing enough in voter education but regretted that politicians were not doing much to mobilize the electorates to take part in the ongoing voters registration exercise.

Greenberg: «Now, interestingly, despite the fact that it was the State Education Department and the Board of Regents that have implemented the Common Core and have been pushing for its implementation, when Siena asked voters «who do you trust most to set education policy in New York, is it the governor, the legislature, the state education department, or the Board of RegentEducation Department and the Board of Regents that have implemented the Common Core and have been pushing for its implementation, when Siena asked voters «who do you trust most to set education policy in New York, is it the governor, the legislature, the state education department, or the Board of Regenteducation policy in New York, is it the governor, the legislature, the state education department, or the Board of Regenteducation department, or the Board of Regents?»

But the governor's grades when it comes to his handling of education are starkly negative: Only 28 percent of voters polled think he's doing a good job.

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The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund found several instances of voters being denied a written ballot when their information did not appear to be in the system.

Speaking in an interview with Citi News on Tuesday [November 8], on the sidelines of the launch of an interactive voter education platform, «Voter Match» in Accra, Justice Short said, «the EC should ensure that this whole process of scrutiny of the nomination forms and taking a decision as to who qualifies and who does not qualify, should be brought back so that candidates will know at an early stage whether they are qualified to stand in the elections or not,» he said.

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

While Bush didn't win the «education vote,» he closed the margin dramatically on this traditionally Democratic issue, especially with swing voters.

And even though few voters outside education circles know who they are or what they do, the state schools chiefs have increasingly important roles as new federal mandates take hold.

American voters are becoming increasingly aware of the No Child Left Behind Act, but a growing minority of them are deciding they don't like it, a new poll sponsored by the Public Education Network and Education Week suggests.

And they learn in both Spanish and English at a time when California voters and politicians are trying to do away with bilingual education.

Certainly, the interests of teachers in ensuring adequate educational investment are far stronger than they are for most voters, who don't have children in the school system and may be more concerned about holding down taxes than investing in the education of other people's kids.

If anything, President Obama's education platform may hold more appeal to Republican voters than it does to Democrats.

The poll shows that voters care deeply about education and want leaders to do something significant to make change.

«Education is a key issue, and I think what this poll says is that all of those involved in education have to do a better job of informing the New York voters and citizens of what their efforts are, what their purpose is, and how they're going about doing it,» GreenbEducation is a key issue, and I think what this poll says is that all of those involved in education have to do a better job of informing the New York voters and citizens of what their efforts are, what their purpose is, and how they're going about doing it,» Greenbeducation have to do a better job of informing the New York voters and citizens of what their efforts are, what their purpose is, and how they're going about doing it,» Greenberg said.

Though 42 percent of likely California voters ranked education as their top priority this year, and the vast majority of voters surveyed after Treu's ruling agreed that the state should do away with «last hired, first fired» seniority protections, nearly 60 percent said they didn't know what the lawsuit was about.

While it is not clear whether Luke Bronin simply doesn't understand education policy or is hiding his true positions from Hartford voters, the reality is that the charter school industry and the education reformers are lining up for the golden boy from Greenwich and that, in turn, makes it very clear whose side he will be on if elected mayor of Hartford.

«We built a coalition that was pretty unusual, and we served up a solution that it looks like the voters didn't buy,» said Lisa Macfarlane, spokeswoman for the League of Education Vvoters didn't buy,» said Lisa Macfarlane, spokeswoman for the League of Education VotersVoters.

Chris Korsmo of the League of Education Voters said, «If we didn't think we could win, we wouldn't put it on the ballot.»

Last night was Waterloo for the education status quo in Mississippi, a powerful statement that the voters of Mississippi support the bold education reforms of these last four years and do not want to go backwards.

The court ruled that the cuts the state is making are not affecting the base funding per student and that the language voters approved in the amendment does not prevent cuts from total education funding.

On education policy, do voters want the General Assembly to have an active year like 2011 — like the 2011 session, when lawmakers passed the state's voucher program, a teacher evaluation mandate and new charter school rules into law?

As the California Department of Education prepares to release the first set of student test scores based on the Common Core State Standards, a new poll shows voters have mixed feelings about the new standards, including many who don't understand what they are, or how they're being implemented.

You are the elected — oh, wait — perhaps you are an appointed member of the Hartford Board of Education (I am opposed to appointed boards because of how they disenfranchise voters and parents); indeed, I believe you are the chair; your personal views as expressed here may not guide your policies and your voting, but they do seem consistent with your letters to the Courant and your statements at the BoE meetings.

One of the most interesting developments has been the fact that voters simply don't buy the corporate education industry's version of the world.

But his criticism has ruffled Conservative feathers and his partners are suggesting the move owes more to the Lib Dem leader's need to form a coalition with his own core voters than it does to education policy.

LA Mayor's Race: How the Candidates Stand on Your Issues Even though the mayor doesn't have any direct authority over the Los Angeles Unified School District, many voters said they want the next major to play a role in education.

A column in Education Week on Tuesday by well - known education researcher Rick Hess suggests one explanation for this omission: Candidates aren't talking about education because voters don't seem all that interEducation Week on Tuesday by well - known education researcher Rick Hess suggests one explanation for this omission: Candidates aren't talking about education because voters don't seem all that intereducation researcher Rick Hess suggests one explanation for this omission: Candidates aren't talking about education because voters don't seem all that intereducation because voters don't seem all that interested it.

In light of growing opposition by parents, students, teachers, principals, superintendents and school boards to the overuse and abuse of standardized testing (including many voters» rejection of policies favored by the administration) what has Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said he will do?

Second, to assure that Bridgeport's voters don't have a voice in who is running their schools, the Malloy Administration put forward this language preventing Bridgeport's future Board of Education from selecting any superintendent unless that person is one of the three names given to them by Malloy's Commissioner of Education.

«We don't believe that a private non-profit corporation appointing board members to oversee and govern the schools provides accountability to the tax payers, who are paying for the schools,» said Catherine Ahl, education chair of Washington's League of Women Voters.

Once they are done writing the exams, why isn't Pearson required to turn the entire kit and kaboodle over to the state and thus to the voters and tax payers who provide the vast majority of decision making and funding to public education?

But the $ 20,000 donation from Bloomberg is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg and Residents for a Better Bridgeport is only one of a series of corporate funded political groups spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure Bridgeport's parents and other voters don't get a direct role in selecting who sets education policy in Bridgeport.

Now we have a president who «love [s] the poorly educated,» who makes up his own «facts,» who's never been accountable to anyone and intends to keep it that way, who blathers about «choice» as a civil rights issue — as have the two presidents before him; only he, with DeVos, the least qualified Secretary of Education this country's ever had, will do what none has done before, what most voters don't approve, legalize vouchers and route public funding into religious schools, thereby undermining another foundation of our democracy, the separation of church and state.

A coalition of «education reformers» and corporate executives in Fairfield Country are spending a record amount of money to convince Bridgeport voters that it is in their interest to VOTE YES on Question 1, although they go out of their way to make sure that voters don't understand that a YES vote on Question # 1 actually means the people give up their right to select who should oversee Bridgeport's schools.