Sentences with phrase «to a ballot measure»

Indeed, voters statewide rejected charter school ballot measures in 1996, 2000 and 2004.

The bill would have also addressed state ballot measure law and create a photo - ID requirement for voting.

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

In 2016, we endorsed 100 candidates and 2 statewide ballot measures.

Parents should be called only in the case of a discrepancy, she said, as is common when verifying signatures for ballot measures.

These include congressional races, gubernatorial contests, state school chief races, state school board elections, and state ballot measures.

She has spent the last 20 years raising money for non-profit organizations, political candidates, and ballot measure campaigns.

He says ballot measures only attract voters who support that ballot initiative, regardless of age or political party.

Twenty - four states permit citizens to make laws directly through ballot measures.

The wealthy physicist and good government activist successfully led ballot measures to turn redistricting over to an independent commission.

In the 2007 — 08 election cycle, total spending on state and federal campaigns, political parties, and ballot measures exceeded $ 5.8 billion.

Notably, school districts with recently failed mill levy ballot measures, had success this year.

It does not now have, and has never had, a written ballot measure.

Since 1994 the trust also has helped states and communities craft and pass more than 330 ballot measures generating almost $ 25 billion in new conservation - related funding.

There had been 32 ballot measures in the past to try to get same - sex couples the rights that every heterosexual couple takes for granted.

A list of ballot measures in Suffolk County is available here.

In their lawsuits, filed last May, the groups argued that Proposition 39, a state ballot measure passed by voters in 2000, grants charters» access to facilities in...

There's also often polling done for statewide education - related elections, such as ballot measures or state superintendent races, and, periodically, by news outlets and advocacy organizations on various education - related issues.

In November, voters approved ballot measures legalizing recreational marijuana in California, Nevada, Massachusetts, and tentatively, Maine.

In California, there is a proposed ballot measure called the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.

State Still Has a Role in Supporting and Holding Districts Accountable With the passage of Proposition 30 and almost nine out of 10 local ballot measures last November, the voters of California gave our schools an almost unprecedented chance to begin rebuilding after years of budget cuts.

PHOENIX BUSINESS JOURNAL By: Mike Sunnucks November 8, 2012 Voter approval of California ballot measures increasing income taxes on the rich as well as state sales and business taxes is prompting another Arizona effort to poach jobs and companies from... Continue reading >>

The protest came just days before the Boulder City Council meeting on Tuesday, when leaders will discuss November ballot measures, including the possibility of the city launching a municipal utility.

Ballotpedia has tracked the following ballot measure (s) relating to redistricting in Massachusetts.

[UPDATE: Both ballot measures failed, proving that consumers still do not understand the severity of this issue.]

But the study found that cannabis ballot measures did increase the overall voter turnout in Colorado and Washington in 2012 (though not in Oregon, where the initiative did not pass).

Educators helped defeat ballot measures that would have required voter approval of new taxes in Missouri, Montana, and Oregon.

Voters in Massachusetts and Georgia rejected ballot measures that would have paved the way for the creation of more charter schools.

In other state legislature - related ballot measure news, Nebraska and South Carolina lawmakers saw ballot proposals introduced recently about term limits for state legislators.

«According to Leading Women For Shared Parenting, though, the Association went beyond that, actually donating some $ 60,000 of Association money to the outfit to actively campaign against Ballot Measure No. 6.

Inspired after a string of awful - to - middling governors won with less than 50 per cent support, a Maine ballot measure will ask voters to endorse ranked - ballot voting and instant run - offs — one of the electoral alternatives the Trudeau government is considering.

Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention, arguing that it's just too risky to tinker with the state's governing document and threaten existing protections for worker's compensation, unemployment benefits and collective bargaining.

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A project to protect Californians who live near the Salton Sea from deteriorating air quality could sink or swim based on the outcome of a June ballot measure.

The coalition supporting Prop B, the Missouri ballot measure to stop puppy mill cruelty, applauds the Jackson County legislature for unanimously approving a resolution supporting passage of Proposition B.

But the April 3 ballot measure asking voters to pay for the last 12 - acre parcel of the Dole estate and its 150 - year - old Italianate house has some residents questioning whether the Crystal Lake Park District belongs in the historic preservation business.

A minimum wage increase ballot measure was approved by 71 % of Florida voters in 2004, a Presidential election year where GW Bush won the state by 400,000 votes.

It was easily the most expensive ballot measure in Massachusetts history, with more than $ 40 million raised by both sides.

Proposition 40 was a GOP sponsored ballot measure which supported killing the newly drawn senate districts.

In 2004, this editorial page backed Proposition 71, a $ 3 billion ballot measure meant to bypass then - President George W. Bush's ban on human embryonic stem cell research and to put California in the forefront of this hugely promising field.

In today's education headlines: State Board Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Better Fund Schools.

Thus, when the economy began to improve and when ballot measures brought new revenue to school districts, California found itself in a desperate position: Once again, the schools were looking to hire tens of thousands of teachers, but the challenge of finding good candidates had become more difficult than ever.

A comparable rush could shortly be under way in Maine, where the state is currently recounting votes after a recreational marijuana ballot measure narrowly passed.

And donate just $ 5 to the CCSA Advocates Issues Committee so that we can fight ballot measures such as these.

In addition to action in Washington, the platform calls on state - level ballot initiatives to increase funding for schools, and highlights an unsuccessful school funding ballot measure in Mississippi voted on last year as an example of positive action.

If dollars were votes, big pharma would be beating California's controversial drug - price control ballot measure Proposition 61 by a margin of about 7 - 1.