Sentences with phrase «other ballot measures»

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Jackson and other religious leaders challenged the city on the measure saying the matter should be put to District voters in a ballot initiative.

While New Trier and the park district have yet to make a final decision of whether or not to place the referendum requests on the November ballot, officials from both organizations said they are talking to each other and understand the potential challenges of asking voters to support two measures in one election.

The White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives are up for grabs, along with thousands of other offices in state and local governments across the country, even as voters weigh in on scores of ballot initiatives and other measures.

Massachusetts, on the other hand, is one of the deepest blue states in the nation, but voters there don't seem to be warming up to the legalization measure on their ballot this fall.

Supporters for the other measures on the ballot (turn the ballot over, people!)

In other state legislature - related ballot measure news, Nebraska and South Carolina lawmakers saw ballot proposals introduced recently about term limits for state legislators.

Business owners and others in the industry planned two days of lectures and discussion about what the ballot measures mean for businesses.

Voters in November approved the ballot measure, which applies to elected officials, governor's appointees and some other government employees.

The statewide ballot measure, which provided $ 3 billion in funding for stem cell research at California universities and research institutions, was overwhelmingly approved by voters, and called for the establishment of an entity to make grants and provide loans for stem cell research, research facilities, and other vital research opportunities.

We summarize a body of work documenting that when institutions can not consider race in admissions — as has been the case in states that have banned affirmative action via ballot measures or other policies — racial and ethnic diversity has declined across various educational sectors, not just at selective undergraduate institutions, but in the professional fields of law, business, and medicine, as well as other graduate disciplines.

In a dramatic turn of public opinion, Californians defeated a ballot measure that would have capped administrative spending by the state's nearly 1,000 districts at 5 percent of their total budgets and required that the other 95 percent go to classroom expenses, such as teachers» salaries and school supplies.

The other key word Sutton changed was in the ballot measure summary - dropping the word «certain» in favor of «qualifying» to describe the organizations authorized to operate public charter schools.

Unlike other models, charters must pay for their own school facility — but increasingly are sharing space with other public schools, thanks to the enforcement of a ballot measure.

Spokane Public Schools officials are exploring the possibility of placing a major bond measure on the November ballot that would move up the timetable for building three new middle schools and replacing three others.

Moody's warned Boston and three other Massachusetts cities that passage of a ballot measure to expand charter schools could weaken their financial standing and ultimately threaten their bond ratings.

San Francisco plans a ballot measure that would increase the city's 5 percent commercial utilities tax to encourage energy - saving steps by hotels, offices and other nonresidential buildings.

«Our expansion into Florida was not predicated on the outcome of the Measure 4 ballot initiative, however, we do support the expansion of property tax exemptions that encourage solar power generation as it paves the way for our company (and others) to diversify the solar power generation products that we offer,» Vivint Solar EVP and Head of Capital Markets Thomas Plagemann told pv magazine.

Debra Bowen, California Secretary states that the measure had been sponsored by Mercury Insurance, the auto insurance giant, who has managed to get adequate number of signatures required to qualify for the November ballot, which already has two other measures.