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Over the last few years, elections for public education officials have gone from overlooked and low-profile to heated and politicized affairs, a shift that’s due in large part to conservatives ...
Warnings of a ‘bleak’ future. When the board brought the referendum to voters in 2018 — a measure that passed with more than 70% of the vote — it was to support teacher pay and school ...
Initiatives and referendums—collectively known as "ballot measures", "propositions", or simply "questions"—differ from most legislation passed by representative democracies; ordinarily, an elected legislative body develops and passes laws. Initiatives and referendums, by contrast, allow citizens to vote directly on legislation.
See some interesting facts about school referendums in Wisconsin.
The movement gained some legislative attention when a 1920 Michigan referendum for compulsory public education received 40% of the vote. [3] In 1922, Oregon passed a similar referendum. Eventually this law was challenged and unanimously struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Pierce v. Society of Sisters. [4]
For districts that had a referendum this spring, Larson's office's data shows the referendum amounts and the amounts of special education costs that weren't reimbursed in the 2022-23 school year.
California Proposition 187 (also known as the Save Our State (SOS) initiative) was a 1994 ballot initiative to establish a state-run citizenship screening system and prohibit illegal immigrants from using non-emergency health care, public education, and other services in the State of California. Voters passed the proposed law at a referendum on ...
Amendment 2 is too vague. It does not say how public money would be distributed, and it could lead to government overreach.