About 90 percent of the requests for renewal levies were approved in yesterday’s elections, as well 42 percent of requests for new money. “For a primary election, results were a little better than normal,” says Damon Asbury, who follows levies for the Ohio School Boards Association. He says usually about 30 percent of new levy requests [...]
Kim Keegan / Flickr Ohio voters approved most school district requests to renew existing tax levies in Tuesday’s special election. But the majority of requests to impose new taxes appeared headed for failure, according to the unofficial election results available Tuesday evening. Those results are similar to the pattern in past elections. There were nearly 140 school [...]
Mock election results from more than 80,000 Central Ohio students tell us this: Kids like Barack Obama, tax levies and Josh Mandel–even more than their parents do. Here’s how the results from the 2012 Kids Voting Central Ohio General Election compare with the real General Election results for Franklin County.
Yesterday, Ohio voters picked members of the State Board of Education in 11 districts. While there are some new faces on the board, there isn’t much change in the board’s political makeup. The 19-member State Board of Education is a non-partisan board. Still, members tend to lean towards one political party or the other. Of [...]
A dozen teachers and former teachers ran for seats in the Ohio House of Representatives, and two more ran for the state Senate. But just one of them won his race. Most of the teacher-candidates said last year’s battle over collective bargaining for public employees spurred them to run. And many of them hoped the energy [...]
School levies have been notoriously tough to pass in the last several years as voters struggled with an economy that has been slow to recover. Typically, schools that ask for a renewal of an existing levy get it, while schools that want extra money are turned down. This election mostly followed the rule, though many [...]
Early returns show homeschooled 24-year old leading Ohio state Board of Election race.
Results of a statewide Ohio school mock election put Barack Obama ahead of Mitt Romney by 13 percentage points. The results from 48 schools across the state reported to WVIZ/PBS ideastream’s NewsDepth break down like this:
School levies around the state did not fair well in Tuesday’s election. Twenty-five failed, 10 passed, and one was pulled from the ballot. If you’re keeping score, that means more than 70 percent of school levies failed. Schools have struggled to get levies passed in the last few elections, and there’s a pretty easy explanation [...]
Voters approved nearly all of the more than 100 school issues on the ballot Tuesday that called for renewing existing taxes. Results for issues asking voters to approve new taxes were mixed: Just over half were approved. Most of the levies on the ballot this March called for increased property taxes, rather than income taxes. And [...]
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