Sentences with phrase «rejected ballot initiatives»

However, twice in the past, they overwhelmingly rejected ballot initiatives that would have allowed vouchers.

OIL AND GAS: For the seventh time, voters in Youngstown, Ohio, reject a ballot initiative to ban fracking.

Attorney general rejects another ballot initiative, court challenge looms Arkansas Times (blog) Full coverag...

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Arizona voters rejected a payday loan ballot initiative in 2008, leading to sunset of the authorizing law in 2010.

In 1999, a ballot initiative proposed diverting funds from the APF was rejected by more than 80 percent of Alaska voters.

Two years after voters rejected a statewide school - construction ballot initiative for the first time, Californians will decide next week whether the state can sell $ 3 billion in bonds for construction and repair of the education infrastructure.

In the end, the ballot initiative was rejected by the voters.

Well, despite the fact that the folks out there in Washington, Bill Gates» own neighbors, have repeatedly rejected the establishment of charter schools in their state, Bill and his know - nothing - about - education pals keep trying, and this year they have ponied up nearly $ 10 million to push ballot initiative 1240, allowing up to 40 charter schools in Washington

Referendum 55 marks the third time charter - school measures have appeared on this state's ballot; voters have rejected charter - school initiatives twice.

In 2015, school district employees, especially administrators and school board members, were among the loudest proponents of Initiative 42, the education funding ballot initiative that voters rejected last fall.

A less sunny view is based on elections results in «blue» Massachusetts and «red» Georgia, where voters in both states soundly rejected pro-school choice ballot initiatives.

Washington State voters, with only four * mainly - urban counties around Seattle bucking the tide, appeared to reject * a ballot initiative that would have required labeling for foods with genetically modified ingredients (with a variety of exceptions), according to the state's election Web site.

The best climate and clean energy news to come out of yesterday's election is that California voters roundly rejected Proposition 23, a ballot initiative sponsored by out - of - state oil companies that would have overturned the state's 2006 climate law.

Washington, DC — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) stands with voters in Colorado who resoundingly rejected by a three to one margin a ballot initiative that would have eliminated a woman's ability to make personal, private decisions about her health care.