Sentences with phrase «provided voter education»

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Liberal activists who have been critical of Cuomo on education and other issues think an insurgent with greater name recognition could provide a stronger challenge, even though polls say Cuomo is still popular among Democratic voters statewide.

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

The Governor's message was astutely deferential to Upstate's need for economic growth, meanwhile Cuomo also avoided triggering the tripwires of controversy on education and the environment (which provided Zephyr Teachout with opening to garner a third of the 2014 Democratic primary vote); Cuomo advanced strong measures around election law reform and on the criminal justice front vis a vis Bail reform, as well as the Dream Act and MWBE all of which registered positively with minority voters.

The governor said his argument to city voters would focus on new money for education that casino revenue would provide, even if no casinos would initially be in the city.

Education World provides five lesson plans to help you drive home the importance of voting, teach about the process of creating laws, track election results and voter turnout, and teach students what it's like to make the tough decisions that elected officials make every day.

Education Voters of PA, like many other small non-profit organizations, works with a fiscal sponsor, a larger organization that provides services and supports that allow us to focus on our mission rather than on bookkeeping and administrative duties.

But its overwhelming failure could make legislators less likely to support increased spending on education since voters decided against providing a new source of funding from which to draw, lawmakers said Wednesday.

To inspire and empower voters to advocate on behalf of Florida's children and their right to a high - quality public education as provided in Article IX, Section 1 of the Florida Constitution.

League of Education Voters applauds the strategy of providing transparency and focusing on supports for schools with the most challenges.

Members of a board of education for a general powers school district are elected by the voters of a community for terms of either four or six years, as provided by the school district's bylaws.

Hillary Clinton is the only presidential candidate in the race who has provided an education plan for voters to review and scrutinize, according to panelists during a discussion August 30 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

«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?

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.

Because Connecticut voters believe in education, they believe in democracy and they have had more than their fair share of politicians who seek to use their office to provide financial support to their friends and supporters.

With a «yes» vote, the voters of South Hunterdon will create a more sustainable school district and more options for the way we provide and fund education in New Jersey.

«We know voters overwhelmingly support providing federal funding for gifted and talented education,» said M. René Islas, Executive Director of the National Association for Gifted Children.

«These are the same voters who passed a record number of referenda last year, raising taxes on themselves to make sure their schools can provide a world - class education to their kids,» she said.

California voters approved Proposition 39 in 2000, amending the state education code so that school districts must provide «reasonably equivalent» facilities to charter school students who would otherwise attend district schools.

Overwhelming majority of California voters said Yes to opening the doors and providing more opportunities for Multilingual Education in California Schools

Kirkpatrick Foundation provided these non-partisan resources to help with voter education.

The trove of data on which the firm relied, providing everything from a user's relationship status to their education history, is increasingly being used by political campaigns and candidates to target voters.

Local - PP Votes Northwest and Hawaii is a statewide voter education project that provides information about voting, elections, and candidates for public office.

More than three - quarters of American voters support providing voluntary home visiting and parent education programs that help first - time parents support their child's early learning, health, and emotional development.