Sentences with phrase «including voter education»

In the coming months, Families That Can will be hosting workshops and events including voter education forums with Los Angeles school board candidates to educate, empower and mobilize charter school parents.

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Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

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Pollsters telephoned voters Jan. 12 - 16, days after Cuomo sketched out an election - year agenda that included tax relief and higher education spending in his annual State of the State address.

Our areas of work have included health care, education, after - school programs, voter participation, economic development and consumer issues.

Teachout believes that several of her positions — including on the topics of affordable housing, Long Island College Hospital (LICH) and public education — should especially resonate with Brooklyn voters.

Prime Minister David Cameron is being backed by senior Tories including Education Secretary Michael Gove and London Mayor Boris Johnson, but many backbenchers including Mr Davies fear the proposal will drive away traditional Conservative voters.

«His presence in this race brought the focus to real issues facing voters around our borough — including education, affordable housing, and better healthcare for all Queens residents.

He listed activities lined up for the committee in preparation for the elections to include organising implementation meetings with relevant stakeholders, voter education at the grassroots, as well as production and distribution of information, education and communication materials.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).

Some proposed measures to increase voter participation include nonpartisan elections and instant runoff voting as well as stronger voter education.

Since taking office, Secretary Kemp has established his state as a national model for election security, including; the My Voter Page or «MVP» voter education website.

Assemblyman Bing has received multiple awards in recognition of his service including the 2008 Hunter College Presidential Medal, a 2008 New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund Eco-Star award, and the 2005 Vanderbilt YMCA's Champion of the Year Award.

The eight specific issues under the purview of the Commission include organizational and operational planning within INEC; Transparency and making information of public interest available and accessible; Biometric identification of voters; Voter education, Voter Register and the enrolment of new registrants; and the issue of exclusion of aspirants by political parties on the basis of wealth.

Helming said the top issues she hears about from voters include the economy, education, the heroin epidemic and Albany dysfunction.

The Chairman explained how the additional budgetary provision would be expended to include salaries and Social Insurance contributions, recurrent expenses such as utilities, maintenance and others for 867 offices and residencies nationwide, including staff welfare, provision of core electoral expenses like the conduct of voter education, legal services and for renovation of office and residential buildings.

The coalition includes the Accabonac Protection Committee, Concerned Citizens of Montauk, the Dark Sky Society, the Garden Club of East Hampton, Group for the East End, New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, Northwest Alliance, Quiet Skies Coalition, Amagansett Springs Aquifer Protection, the Surfrider Foundation, and the Third House Nature Center.

The estimated # 250million cost includes # 82 million to hold the referendum and # 9million for «voter education».

In addition, she has been active in many local organizations including: The New Rochelle League of Women Voters, NAACP, New Rochelle Board of Education, the Shiloh Baptist Church, Sister to Sister International and the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus.

Gov. Gray Davis of California and civil rights groups announced a deal last Thursday to drop legal challenges to a 1994 voter - approved initiative that sought to end public services, including education, to illegal immigrants.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

California voters passed Proposition 187 in November, enacting into law a controversial bill that denies illegal immigrants basic social services, including education.

Several education leaders I talked to were struck by the wave of white working - class voters, including many rural and rust - belt Americans without college degrees, supporting Trump.

«I strongly suspect that most Trump voters with kids — to the extent that education is on their minds — are chiefly interested in having their current schools work better, ensure a decent and prosperous future for their students, including readiness for real jobs.»

Washington Policy Center, the state's premier public policy research and education organization, has completed non-partisan, objective analysis of all statewide propositions appearing on this year's ballot, including Referendum 55, which asks voters to decide if a limited experimental charter school law, which the Legislature passed earlier this year, should be passed...

Opponents include the League of Women Voters, the Washington State Labor Council, Washington Education Association, the Washington State Special Education Coalition, and the Washington State School Directors Association.

«As the budget process moves forward, we urge the Legislature and the voters to support the Governor's plan, and fund public education — including charter schools — in order to minimize any negative impact to students.»

A recent Global Strategy Group survey of more than 600 Connecticut voters found that 73 percent — 79 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of Republicans — support continuing the education reforms included in last year's landmark law.

So a coalition of respected educational interests, including the League of Education Voters, has filed this initiative.

In August, Braun Research interviewed 600 registered voters across Delaware to get their views on a number of education - related issues, including ESAs.

Nine organizations, including E4E - Los Angeles, have authored a joint letter urging Governor Jerry Brown to veto AB 484, an education bill that would deprive teachers, students, parents and voters from accessing information about how students are performing.

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.

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?

Gov. Jerry Brown and Legislative leaders Monday wrapped up negotiations on several budget trailer bills, including AB 1476 - the education financing package that relies heavily on voters approving a sales and income tax measure on the November ballot.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

The name of the organization clearly references Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), which has helped deliver millions to anti-union candidates and lobbied for policy changes across the country, including a right - wing effort to crush unions in California, which voters rejected in 2012.

Last month, Youth Connection Charter School (YCCS) created an education campaign to make the political system relevant to young people, educate and involve YCCS students who are eligible voters, and discuss their concerns and ideas relative to the main issues in the election that impact all facets of their lives, including violence, employment, affordable education, -LSB-...]

Education Voters has provided information and training to hundreds of home and school associations, community groups and conferences (including the Title I State Parent Advisory Committee annual conference) and helped promote general involvement and / or provided state issue advocacy trainings for groups from 3 to 300.

If voters approve the measure to repeal Common Core, the state would also be required to establish a committee with the power to veto any new standards and would direct the Massachusetts Commissioner of Education to «release all of the test items, including questions, constructed responses and essays, for each grade and every subject.»

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.

As a leading organization in a coalition including the Washington State Charter Schools Association, the League of Education Voters, Democrats for Education Reform, and Washington Roundtable, as well as the affected public charter school families, we swung into action to fight for a fix that would keep the schools open.

But voters, including many Republicans, appear to have rejected that idea in the face of budget woes and court battles over education funding.

The Washington Public Charter Schools Initiative is supported by a growing bi-partisan coalition of education advocates, teachers, parents and community leaders, including Democrat and Republican legislators State Sen. Rodney Tom (D), State Sen. Steve Litzow (R), and State Rep. Eric Pettigrew (D), as well as the League of Education Voters, the Washington Chapter of Stand For Children, and Democrats for Educatioeducation advocates, teachers, parents and community leaders, including Democrat and Republican legislators State Sen. Rodney Tom (D), State Sen. Steve Litzow (R), and State Rep. Eric Pettigrew (D), as well as the League of Education Voters, the Washington Chapter of Stand For Children, and Democrats for EducatioEducation Voters, the Washington Chapter of Stand For Children, and Democrats for EducationEducation Reform.

We engage in educational and electoral activity, including legislative advocacy, voter education, and grassroots organizing to promote the Planned Parenthood mission.

The Planned Parenthood of New York City Action Fund engages in educational and electoral activity, including issue advocacy, voter education, and grassroots organizing to promote Planned Parenthood's mission.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund is a nonpartisan, not - for - profit organization that engages in educational and electoral activity, including grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, and voter education, to promote and protect women's health and reproductive rights.

A Peter D. Hart Research poll shows a majority of voters in nearly every demographic category, including Democrats, Republicans, and independents, as well as Catholics and evangelical Christians, support comprehensive sex education.

PPAC engages in educational and electoral activity including legislative advocacy, voter education, and grassroots organizing to promote our mission.

The Action Fund engages in educational and electoral activity, including legislative advocacy, voter education, and grassroots organizing.

The PPHP Action Fund engages in education and electoral activities including issue education, legislative advocacy, and voter education campaigns.