Sentences with phrase «file ballot initiative»

15) Massachusetts: Activists have until Thursday to file ballot initiative language for the November 2016 election.

The groups, led by the League of Education Voters, filed a ballot initiative in the hopes of forcing a November vote on the free but independent public schools, which are allowed to use unconventional techniques and hire nonunion employees.

Yesterday afternoon a bipartisan coalition filed a ballot initiative with the Secretary of State to authorize public charter schools in WA.

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He filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia after the elections board refused a ballot initiative on same - sex marriage, and when denied, followed it all the way up to the US Supreme Court (which also denied it).

Today is the deadline for filing of intent to put an initiative question on the ballot for the Nov. 5, 2002 election.

Having been rebuffed in the Legislature, a group of them just filed an initiative to put public charter schools on the November ballot.

The Seattle Times published the following article in today's newspaper: Advocacy groups file initiative to put charter schools on November ballot — According to the text, the initiative sets out several guidelines, including a stipulation that any charter schools must be nonprofit and must not be religious.

A court battle over a campaign for the ballot initiative illustrates the problem: A lawsuit filed in November alleges public money and property were improperly used when posting political signs on campuses about the tax.

This past Tuesday the campaign made it official, filing the paperwork with the Lieutenant Governor's office to begin the ballot initiative process.

In June, several groups filed a lawsuit challenging the commission's placement of these initiatives on the ballot.

In case lawmakers balk, a ballot initiative is in the works, as is a legal move involving a prominent Boston firm that has filed a class - action suit to lift the charter cap, arguing that it unconstitutionally denies children access to an adequate education.

Then MECO filed a lawsuit to try to stop the organizers from collecting signatures for the ballot initiative, under grounds that were, well, groundless.