Sentences with phrase «school initiative on ballot»

Groups consider trying to put charter - school initiative on ballot As prospects for a bill allowing charter schools dims in the Washington Legislature, some in the so - called «education reform» movement are considering compromise options or again asking the voters about it.

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The initiative that benefited from voters casting their ballots in schools was Proposition 301, which proposed a new sales tax to be spent on education.

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.

Advocates on both sides of California's ballot initiative to curtail bilingual education in public schools went before the state school board this month, several months before the voters will decide the issue.

Lawmakers failed to put school - construction bond initiative on November ballot, despite arguments that more funds are needed to accommodate reduced classes.

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.

On the 74, Richard Whitmire wonders why parents and teachers in wealthy communities like Newton, Massachusetts, are so actively fighting a ballot initiative that would allow more charter schools to open in other areas in the state.

When it came to persuading Washington state voters to back a ballot initiative on charter schools, President Clinton wanted nothing to do with the issue.

The groups, led by the League of Education Voters, filed a ballot initiative in the hopes of forcing a November vote on the free but independent public schools, which are allowed to use unconventional techniques and hire nonunion employees.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The charter schools initiative is officially on the Washington state ballot for November.

The charter schools initiative is officially on the Washington state ballot for November.

Charter schools measure officially on Wash. ballot The charter schools initiative is officially on the Washington state ballot for November

September 9, 2012 Charter schools on the ballot again in Washington State Charter schools are on the ballot in Washington for a third time with an initiative that promises more choice.

Charter schools are on the ballot in Washington for a third time with an initiative that promises more choice.

The charter schools initiative will be one of five ballot measures on the fall ballot.

Jim Spady of Dick's Drive - In Restaurants, who has fought along with his wife, Fawn, to bring charter schools to this state, noted that the first charter - school initiative, on the ballot in 1996, drew significant contributions from the National Education Association, a charter foe that is the parent organization for the WEA.

Having been rebuffed in the Legislature, a group of them just filed an initiative to put public charter schools on the November ballot.

The Seattle Times published the following article in today's newspaper: Advocacy groups file initiative to put charter schools on November ballot — According to the text, the initiative sets out several guidelines, including a stipulation that any charter schools must be nonprofit and must not be religious.

In 1996, a charter school initiative was put on the ballot, but garnered only 36 percent of the vote.

THE charter schools ballot initiative proposed for the November election was born out of parental frustration with the Legislature's failure to move on a key education reform.

Efforts are under way to place an initiative on the Nov. 6 ballot that would ask voters to allow 40 public charter schools around the state in five years.

The charter schools ballot initiative proposed for the November election was born out of parental frustration with the Legislature's failure to move on a key education reform...

A small, anti-charter group is hoping to gather more than 360,000 signatures to put this initiative on the ballot in November, with the goal of closing every charter school in California.

On top of this shift a new ballot initiative called Our Schools Now aims to get even more money into Utah's sSchools Now aims to get even more money into Utah's schoolsschools.

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

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 transportation.

MISSISSIPPI The Schott Foundation for Public Education and the Southern Education Foundation released a powerful statement this week reflecting on the inspiring organizing work behind Initiative 42, the ballot initiative to secure fair funding for Mississippi schools.

The «Our Schools Now» initiative looks very likely to gather enough signatures to be on the November ballot.

The defeat of two high - profile charter initiatives at the ballot box on Tuesday signals a growing public concern about the impacts, and rapid proliferation of charter schools across the country.

Concurrent to approval of SB 114 by the Senate Education Committee, the Secretary of State's office announced that proponents of a separate initiative calling for a $ 9 billion school facilities bond to go on the same ballot were cleared to begin collecting the signatures needed to put that measure before voters.

Our Schools Now will be holding regional meetings Tuesday on its ballot initiative.

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.

While the board had hoped a new bond measure - the only funding mechanism for school facilities - might be placed on this November's ballot, more pressing budget matters led Gov. Jerry Brown to propose a tax - increase initiative to save schools from deeper program and personnel cuts.

Cascade's founders helped put an initiative (Measure 11) on Oregon's 1990 General Election ballot which would have given every Oregon K - 12 student a refundable tax credit to exercise full school choice.

To get an understanding of how America's wealthiest people are using some of their fortunes to drive school reform, take a look at a list of the contributors to the pro-charter school initiative on the Washington state ballot in November.

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.

TU teachers have influenced the state ballot initiative that allows the operation of charter schools, swung union votes, and received calls during session from swing Democrats on controversial education policy issues.

Join a «mass migration» to protect the Dreamers; A new report from Power U and the Advancement Project calls out the Miami - Dade public schools on school climate measures; Testimony delivered by song in Philadelphia; Dark Money at issue in the Massachusetts charter ballot initiative.

FESA was the primary source of funding behind the 2016 «Question 2» ballot initiative in Massachusetts, which would have lifted the state cap on charter schools.

Ballots are still being counted on a similar initiative in Washington State, which would allow 40 charter schools to open over the next five years.

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