Sentences with phrase «where voter education»

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.

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In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).

We have also integrated voter education into major sporting and cultural events, where we distribute materials and respond to questions especially on the ongoing CVR, how to vote and download myINEC mobile application.

Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu who welcomed the development, outlined capacity building for the Commission's staff and political parties, voter education and sensitization, inclusiveness — particularly for women, youths and persons living with disabilities — and electoral conflict mitigation as areas where the Commission would need support.

In Michigan, where legislative action on school reform has been put on hold until questions of funding equity have been settled, voters will face two ballot referenda — each with a different sales - tax equation — that could add new funds to the education coffers.

But it is possible to imagine that voters passionate about these issues could persuade their elected officials to address them, and it is also possible that action may be more feasible at the state level where the politics may be less toxic and where most of the policy action on K - 12 education is located anyway.

27 reports: The two candidates for the state's top education job had one last chance to let voters know where they stand before Tuesday's spring election.

Frost said he has hopes of being appointed to the Florida Department of Education, where he plans to work on gaining voter approval for several proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution.

But the lessons of Los Angeles and other big cities where corporatization once reigned show perhaps a more profound strain of American education localism based on largely independent citizen school boards and voters resisting federalization and private interests.

In midterm contests this year, Pennsylvania was an exception where education topped the list of concerns among voters in the governor's race pitting Republican incumbent Tom Corbett against Democratic challenger Tom Wolf.

Polls showed that his most unpopular issue was education, where only 22 - 26 % of voters approved his harsh and punitive reform policies of closing public schools, grading schools, rating teachers based on student test scores, opening hundreds of small schools, and favoring charter schools with free public space.

In 2014, voters in Newark elected Ras Baraka mayor in an election where local control of public education was the primary issue.

According to research by Neil Irwin and Josh Katz of The Upshot, «Counties with Trump support correlate with counties where voters have less education, work in old - economy jobs, and when asked about their ethnicity say «I'm an American.»»