Sentences with phrase «percent support statewide»

An article in the Green Bay Press - Gazette reports, «Among those polled, 54 percent support the statewide program, and 45 percent said they oppose vouchers.

That includes 58 percent support statewide for suing the federal government over the tax reform law signed late last year.

Not exact matches

At least 62 percent of voters from every region of the state and every party agree that Spitzer should leave his political aspirations on the shelf next year and refrain from seeking statewide office, although he does continue to have a reservoir of support (more than 40 percent) among black and Latino voters.

This represents a reduction of only 2.9 percent of the total operating expenditures projected to be made by school districts statewide during the 2010 - 11 school year, and 7.3 percent in State support.

A new statewide poll shows four out of five New York voters think official state emails should be saved for longer than 90 days; only 16 percent support Governor Cuomo's speedy purges, reports Thomas Kaplan for The New York Times.

A 2015 poll by the Siena College Research Institute revealed 59 percent of statewide voters support the SAFE Act while 33 percent oppose it.

Another Rasmussen poll, done statewide after several days of heavy news coverage about the controversial law and its signing, found a large majority of Arizonans still supported it, by a 64 percent to 30 percent margin.

(In statewide polls, the SAFE Act is consistently supported by at least 60 percent of voters.)

A poll yesterday showed some 74 percent statewide — including strong support Upstate — favor a merit - based system over LIFO.

By contrast, 49 percent of the 1,130 residents polled statewide approved of Cuomo's performance as governor — just a one point decline from his support in July — while 39 percent said they disapproved.

A Quinnipiac poll last week found voters statewide support legalizing personal use by almost two to one: 63 percent in favor, just 32 percent opposed.

A Quinnipiac Poll released on July 13 found that 55 percent of statewide voters support a convention, and 68 percent of voters support a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion.

A Siena College poll released last week shows that 62 percent of voters statewide support having a convention in 2019, at which elected delegates would propose and vote on constitutional amendments.

Statewide, 73 percent of registered voters polled supported the freeze, the Siena College poll found.

The remaining 80 percent of revenue is distributed statewide to support public education or provide tax relief to New Yorkers.

The $ 25.6 billion funding agreement, which came in the final hours of extended budget talks in Albany, will see statewide education spending grow by $ 1.1 billion, while taxpayers will continue to see their support for schools capped at 2 percent.

Third - party presidential candidates received stronger support in the county than the statewide average: Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson received 4.2 percent of the vote; Green Party candidate Jill Stein, 2.4 percent.

Statewide, 47 percent of black voters said they support de Blasio in his battle with Cuomo, compared to 21 percent who said they supported the governor.

Thirty - seven percent statewide support that move, while 47 percent oppose it.

The Marquette poll reported that 37 percent of Wisconsin voters would support a statewide expansion of the program while another 14 percent would support its expansion to large school districts with some failing schools.

A recent survey by Seattle - based Strategies 360 showed that more than half of 500 likely voters statewide support public charter schools while only 25 percent oppose them.

A statewide poll of unionized teachers in traditional public schools found that 85 percent support extending the probationary period to at least three years.

For those children with disabilities or students from families with incomes less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level ($ 44,863 for a family of four), students will receive 100 percent of the statewide average basic support per - pupil, or around $ 5,700.

For families with incomes exceeding 185 percent of the federal poverty level, the funding amount is 90 percent of the statewide average basic support per pupil, or around $ 5,100.

A new, optional three percent set - aside may be a particularly useful tool to support statewide leadership priorities.

Statewide, 29 percent of schools support a BYOD policy.

Conducted among a representative sample of 600 registered voters statewide in June 2015, the survey showed that 62 percent of Louisiana voters support charter schools while just 19 percent oppose.

But in March 2016, the administration backtracked, removing the Atlantic despite strong statewide public support for offshore development in North Carolina (64 percent), South Carolina (67 percent) and Virginia (65 percent).

We particularly applaud and support Governor Eliot Spitzer's ambitious «15 by 15» initiative — mandating a 15 - percent reduction in energy use statewide by 2015, and his creation of an Office of Climate Change — New York's first ever — within the Department of Environmental Conservation.

If those same people who supported this bill spent as much time working on taking care of children after they are born as they do before they are born, then my district would not have a 16 percent child poverty rate, 11 percent of the children in my district would not be without health insurance, and education statewide would not be ranked so low compared to other states.