Sentences with phrase «statewide ballot initiatives»

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and software developer Ron K. Unz has set off sparks in recent election seasons by financing campaigns to get rid of bilingual education through various statewide ballot initiatives.

First, voucher advocates should avoid statewide ballot initiatives and instead work through the state legislature.

However, voucher - type proposals have not been successful in statewide ballot initiatives.

The convention question is one of three statewide ballot initiatives on the backs ballots Tuesday.

He has eliminated the statewide ballot initiative meant to save workers rights and wages.

In 1998, Hastings teamed with Shalvey to write a statewide ballot initiative lifting California's charter cap and making it easier to start a charter school.

But she pointed out that a statewide ballot initiative to change teacher tenure, Prop. 74, was defeated in 2005 by a 55 - to - 45 vote margin.

But after years of legislative failures, Sinquefield and a group he funds, the Children's Education Council of Missouri, are now turning to a statewide ballot initiative.

Nearly 1 million Missouri voters sent a powerful message through the ballot box to shed the stigma of being the puppy mill capital of the country by approving Proposition B, a statewide ballot initiative to establish basic standards for the care of dogs in large - scale commercial breeding facilities.

Nearly 1 million Missouri voters voted to approve the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act, also known as Proposition B, a statewide ballot initiative to establish basic standards for the care of dogs in large - scale commercial breeding facilities.

Not exact matches

The only time a statewide ballot proposition to limit gay marriage was defeated was in Arizona in 2006, although a narrower version of that initiative was passed by the state's voters in 2008.

A statewide initiative on the ballot asks voters to make an exception, and instead direct the tax revenue from marijuana sales toward public education and drug - prevention programs.

For initiatives hoping to be granted ballot access, a minimum of 241,153 valid petition signatures are required to qualify an Initiative to the People for the 2012 statewide ballot.

In Ohio, the statewide petition drive deadline for ballot initiatives seeking ballot access in 2012 is July 4, 2012.

Critics of the actor - director Rob Reiner's latest early - childhood ballot initiative are fine - tuning their case for defeating the measure on the June 6 statewide ballot.

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.

It includes questions placed on ballots through a citizen - initiative process as well as measures that legislatures have put before voters in statewide referendums.

Supporters of a proposed Oregon ballot initiative that would put a two - year cap on the amount of time that English - language learners could receive instruction in their native languages or take English - as - a-second-language classes are looking forward to the November ballot, now that they have gathered enough signatures to put the measure up for a statewide vote.

Proposed ballot initiatives on teacher tenure and the political use of union dues qualified last week for the next statewide elections in California.

Our next action was a massive undertaking: having each certified and classified employee in the entire statewide school system complete a ballot initiative indicating whether they supported a walkout.

Missourians for the Protection of Dogs, the group spearheading the ballot measure to prevent puppy mill cruelty, launched a statewide radio campaign urging state lawmakers not to undermine the citizen - backed initiative.

The nation's first state ballot measure to impose a carbon tax on fossil fuels failed Tuesday on a crowded slate of statewide initiatives in Washington.

To achieve this, The Nature Conservancy is investing $ 3 million to help chart a viable path forward: helping unite a coalition behind a winning statewide climate policy — via the Legislature or a ballot initiative — that puts a price on carbon in order to reduce carbon emissions, support clean energy, help industries in transition, and generate revenue which can be used to reduce the fire risk, flooding and drought.

The Nature Conservancy is investing $ 3 million to help unite a coalition behind a winning statewide climate policy — via the Legislature or a ballot initiative.

More striking, California's Global Warming Solutions Act (Assembly Bill 32, or AB 32) will likely lead to the creation of a very ambitious set of climate initiatives, including a statewide cap ‑ and ‑ trade system (unless it's stopped by ballot initiative — Proposition 23 — or a new Governor, depending on the outcome of the November 2010 elections).