Sentences with phrase «raising ballot initiative»

Push to raise Utah income tax to help schools moving ahead Ed funding» Our Schools Now plans to raise ballot initiative.

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Continuing on the topic of jobs, raising the minimum wage beyond the $ 7.25 federal hourly rate is a key ballot initiative for this midterm cycle in several red states including Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Unless two - thirds of San Diego voters approve a ballot initiative on Nov. 8 to raise $ 350 million to help build a new downtown football stadium, the Chargers likely will leave San Diego after this season and eventually play as the second team in Rams owner Stan Kroenke's football complex in L.A. beginning in 2019.

In another high - profile ballot initiative, residents in Mt. Prospect - based River Trails Elementary District 26 must decide whether to raise their tax rate 13 percent to pay for teachers» salaries and to stave off program cuts.

Tax hikes that would have raised more money for education in Illinois were voted down in 48 of 60 local school district referendums, or 80 percent of the ballot initiatives held across the state on Nov. 5.

Attention has turned to Massachusetts, where parents and advocates are gearing up for a ballot initiative in November to raise the cap on charter schools in the state.

Although the measure was more about politics than policy — it was designed to raise the Hollywood actor's stature in advance of a future run for governor — the ballot initiative did reflect Schwarzenegger's sincere interest in inner - city schools, dozens of which he had toured during work for his nonprofit foundation, the Inner - City Games.

MASSACHUSETTS On Thursday, Raise Up Massachusetts submitted over 155,000 signatures in support of a ballot initiative to institute a millionaire's tax to raise funding for K - 12 public schools, higher education and transportaRaise Up Massachusetts submitted over 155,000 signatures in support of a ballot initiative to institute a millionaire's tax to raise funding for K - 12 public schools, higher education and transportaraise funding for K - 12 public schools, higher education and transportation.

Our Schools Now sets public meeting schedule to discuss its ballot initiative to raise taxes for public school funding.

And high - profile business leaders are rallying behind a ballot initiative to raise the income tax to invest a much - needed $ 750 million into our schools.

Jerry Brown's Tax Allies on Proposition 30 Outspent Foes 4 to 1 Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies spent nearly $ 54 million passing Brown's November ballot initiative to raise taxes, about four times the opposition, according to year - end campaign finance reports.

The Our Schools Now campaign is a ballot initiative effort that would put a question on the ballot in November 2018 asking Utahns if they would raise their own taxes if they could be sure that money went directly to education with a primary goal of reducing class sizes and improving education turnouts in Utah.

Prop 30 was a 2012 ballot initiative that raised income taxes on wealthy individuals for seven years and increased state sales taxes for four years.

«Our Schools Now» officially launched their ballot initiative to raise taxes to better fund Utah's schools.

Both the increase in applicants for more than one charter and an increased number of total applicants show that the headline - grabbing ballot initiative to open more charters managed to raise interest in them, even though it failed to raise their legislated limit.

New polling shows broad voter support for a 2012 ballot initiative that would tax millionaires to raise money for education as well as public safety and social services, sponsors of the measure - led by the California Federation of Teachers reported Thursday.

An initiative to do that, called a «split - roll tax,» raising an estimated $ 4 billion for K - 12 schools and community colleges, will likely be on the November ballot.

Brown also led the push for a successful state ballot initiative to raise education funding.

This launches a ballot initiative to raise taxes to raise per pupil school funding.

Since the ballot initiative was introduced in 2015, the political forces in favor of the cap raise were steady and loud.

Our Schools Now is beginning to collect signatures for a 2018 ballot initiative to raise the personal income tax and the sales tax by about 9 percent each in 2019.

According to Mary O'Connor - Shaver, the woman behind a movement to ban the auctions with a ballot initiative, dogs raised in mills and sold at the auction are not raised to breed standards.

In an effort to raise public and political awareness on cutting CO2 emissions and raising energy efficiency, the Committee for a Secure Green Future in Massachusetts successfully put a Plan B initiative on its November 2008 ballot.

Opponents of Proposition 23, the ballot initiative that would suspend California's climate change and clean energy law, have raised $ 11.9 million in the past two weeks; big - dollar contributors include the film director James Cameron, Microsoft's Bill Gates and the Google co-founder Sergey Brin.