Sentences with phrase «voters support school»

A majority of Louisiana voters support school choice.

Watchdog.org: Poll: African - American voters support school choice more than pols http://bit.ly/2cJGmXW

«Democratic voters support school choice, the programs overwhelmingly benefit families represented by Democrats.

Reality: The most recent national poll conducted by Democratic polling firm Beck Research for the American Federation for Children found 70 percent of voters support school choice, and 65 percent support opportunity scholarships otherwise known as school vouchers.

There was also considerable geographic support for school choice across the three regions of the state, with 68 percent of East Tennessee voters supporting school choice, along with 64 percent of Middle Tennessee voters and 63 percent of West Tennessee voters.

In New York, voters supported a school bond initiative to enhance technology in the classrooms.

Not exact matches

According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 % of likely voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore in their race to fill a Senate seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The board decided to begin polling voters to see if they would be willing to support a new school tax.

Board member Karen Brill wondered whether voters would be willing to support another new school tax.

In Massachusetts, a campaign by church - state separationists was successful in convincing voters to defeat a proposal to allow tax support for private and religious schools; the vote was 70 per cent to 30 per cent.

The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

TINLEY PARK — A scale model of a proposed new recreation center, made by students at Prairie View Junior High School in Tinley Park, is helping voters decide whether to support a bond referendum proposal for the real thing.

«It is good to see that voters across our state support healthy meals in schools as a means to help all kids excel in the classroom.»

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

The 9th Senate district in Nassau County includes the predominantly Jewish Five Towns community and Republicans have sought to bolster support among those voters, with McGrath pledging to aid Yeshivas and day schools if elected.

More than 900 voters in the Onteora Central School District braved the storms accompanied with power outages on Tuesday, May 15 to support the district's 2018 - 2019 budget and school bus proposiSchool District braved the storms accompanied with power outages on Tuesday, May 15 to support the district's 2018 - 2019 budget and school bus proposischool bus propositions.

Although DeFrancisco is hurt by widespread GOP support of Marc Malorino — his chief rival in the May nominating convention — voters should consider DeFrancisco's vow to cut taxes, his previous positions on the Syracuse City School District Board of Education and city council and his 40 - year undefeated record in political races.

TUC Opinion Poll on Regional Pay Commenting on the TUC opinion poll * showing that two thirds of voters thought paying teachers less in lower - pay areas would make it harder for schools to recruit and retain good quality teachers, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Only Michael Gove has expressed any support for local pay in teaching.

Support for grammars is strong across all age and income groups with a remarkable 85 % of 18 to 24 year - olds (many of whom will be first - time voters) wanting more grammar schools.

«Voters showed they value public education, support their local schools and recognize that teachers and other employees have, too, sacrificed in order to preserve programs and jobs.

If the voters in 93 % of the districts voted to support their school budgets, why do we need a tax cap?

«The Governor says people who support quality public schools are playing politics, meanwhile he is robo calling voters homes and there is a committee of millionaires doing direct mail to force through school cuts and finance tax cuts for the wealthiest New Yorkers.»

«The high level of voter support for school budgets speaks to the importance of public education.

The state United Teachers union is launching a television and radio campaign urging voters to support local school district budgets while also touting what they see as the success in New York schools.

Only 29 percent of voters supported Bloomberg's choice to make the former Hearst Magazine president the top school official in the city, according to the poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percent.

Chazy Central Rural School's $ 10,728,470 spending proposal, which required a supermajority vote, was approved with just over 69 percent of voter support.

On gun limits and school safety, the poll showed voters by a 90 percent to 9 percent margin support measures to extend the waiting period for the purchase of firearms up to 10 days, from the current period of up to three days, to allow for more extensive background checks.

Older voters are typically highly supportive of investment in schools, likewise younger voters support health care spending.

In 2012 - 13, Greenport was the first — and remains the only — local school district to propose piercing the cap, for which it was able to obtain the necessary voter support.

Most Council members had two unstated reasons for supporting Greenfield in using tax money to fund religious schools: they either have constituents who would like their choice to send their children to these schools to be further subsidized or they want to buy themselves good will with the increasingly powerful and cohesive blocs of Orthodox, fundamentalist, and Catholic voters should they decide to seek higher office.

«In a three - way race, I think that a candidate who wants a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, health care for all, a Green New Deal to provide full employment while acting on climate change, and who supports progressive taxes to adequately funds our schools and local governments will have the most support among the voters,» stated Hawkins.

Labour voters tend to be opposed to selection, and support the role of LEAs in distributing school places.

The bill would also do away with the traditional school budget vote and require districts to simply ask voters to support a tax increase.

Initially, charter school advocates were exuberant at voter support for the new law.

Sure, there are plenty of Republicans who loudly support empowering parents with school choice, but they are still boosted by a party which expresses vocal disdain for the kinds of government supports on which many of these urban voters depend to keep their families intact.

And in a number of other states, voters approved education - related ballot items, suggesting a high level of local support for public schools.

In April 2013, she announced that she would register hundreds of thousands of new voters and run candidates for city council and the state legislature who supported the schools against those who didn't.

Meanwhile, voters have responded to the progress by electing a 7 - 0 majority to the school board in support of superintendent Tom Boasberg's package of reforms.

Tuition Tax Credits: As District of Columbia voters prepare to vote on a referendum to provide tax credits for private school tuition, President Reagan reiterates his support of federal tax credits at a national convention of Catholic educators.

Yet support for private - school choice among likely voters remains very strong.

Milwaukee voters shifted the balance of power on their school board last week, turning the majority that supports the city's voucher program into a minority.

Support for school choice in all its forms and for NCLB appears to be somewhat weaker among voters in school board elections than among the population as a whole.

It's not that parents and voters have turned against the principle of using of standardized tests to monitor school and student performance: National surveys continue to show 2 - to - 1 support for the practice.

You'll also need the support of voters, parents, and school boards.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

Ohio's mayors may turn to voters to support a ballot initiative that would change the way schools are financed.

Even Denver voters, who recently voted 69 % to support last year's mill levy increase for the Denver Public Schools, only voted 53 % in favor of 66.

The Tennessee Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, celebrates Tennessee's primary election results as voters turned out in support of school choice candidates.

A poll shows that 68 % of Connecticut voters support the CCJEF ruling, and 57 % want to see immediate action to improve the state's schools.

Likely voters have made their opinions clear in polling — 68 percent support school choice, and those percentages are even higher among African - American (72 percent), Hispanic (75 percent), and Millennial (75 percent) voters.