Support Public Schools & Decline to Sign
Signature gathering season is in full swing so, here's your cheat sheet on all the anti-public-education ballot initiatives to NOT sign. (Please share!)
We've grouped the initiatives into the three strategies of public education opponents: Defund. Demonize. Privatize.
DEFUND
Decimating Local Revenue for Schools:
Initiative 50: Voter approval to retain additional prop tax revenue (on ballot)
Initiative 108: Reduced valuations for assessments (circulating)
Shrinking the General Fund:
Initiative 176: Cut the income tax rate from 4.4% to 4.35% (approved for circulation)
Initiative 178: Cut the income tax rate from 4.4% to 4.00% (approved for circulation)
Making TABOR Even Stricter:
Initiative 252: Require new votes for ALL state and local "de-Brucing" measures (circulating)
DEMONIZE
Initiative 160: Public athletic programs for minors (circulating)
Initiative 142: Parental notification of gender incongruence (circulating)
PRIVATIZE
Initiative 138: School choice in education (circulating)