Sentences with phrase «voter education initiatives»

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The decision responded to two appeals brought by Walter Pierce, the governor of Oregon, about the Oregon Compulsory Education Act of 1922, a voter - passed initiative....

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.

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.

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.

Given the Constitution's protection of the right to vote, the equal protection clause also would support a federal right to an education that prepares students to be competent voters and civic participants — enabling them, for instance, to comprehend complex ballot initiatives and serve competently on a jury, as education law scholar and litigator Michael Rebell has contended.

Gov. Gray Davis of California and civil rights groups announced a deal last Thursday to drop legal challenges to a 1994 voter - approved initiative that sought to end public services, including education, to illegal immigrants.

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.

One way forward, she said, could be through a ballot initiative and appeal to the voters with the stories of students who are receiving an inadequate education in California public schools.

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.

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.

The overwhelming approval by California voters of an initiative to end restrictions on bilingual education in its public schools marks another significant shift from the political expressions of racial and ethnic resentments that swirled across the state during the 1990s.

The initiative builds on existing voter registration tools currently available as part of ASCD's Web - based Action Center, an advocacy tool that connects educators with resources to help them speak out on issues of excellence and equity in education.

So a coalition of respected educational interests, including the League of Education Voters, has filed this initiative.

Brown said the policies he had promoted were addressing those issues: Passage of Prop. 30, the initiative approved by voters two years ago that is generating billions of dollars of extra tax revenues for schools, and the Local Control Funding Formula that is targeting billions of state education funds to low - income students and English learners.

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.

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.

California Schools Chief Strikes Tone of Optimism in Annual Address in Lawndale In a speech addressing the state of education, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson on Thursday celebrated a recent wave of voter - approved taxes that are expected to stabilize a dire education budget, and touted other initiatives that would bring still more tax dollars to public schools.

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.

Lisa Macfarlane is the Washington State Director for Democrats for Education Reform, a co-founder of the League of Education Voters, a past President of Schools First (Seattle's levy and bond committee), the sponsor of two statewide education funding initiatives, and a PCO in the 46th Education Reform, a co-founder of the League of Education Voters, a past President of Schools First (Seattle's levy and bond committee), the sponsor of two statewide education funding initiatives, and a PCO in the 46th Education Voters, a past President of Schools First (Seattle's levy and bond committee), the sponsor of two statewide education funding initiatives, and a PCO in the 46th education funding initiatives, and a PCO in the 46th District.

For School Libraries Public library districts come to mind first when considering ballot initiatives, but they are by no means the only types of libraries where voter education and campaign support matters.