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We support equal opportunity for high quality education for all students from early childhood through community college. We work actively to educate ourselves and the community about innovations in education as well as financing for education.

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Providence School Board Nominating Forum

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Submitted by Rhode Island in November 2020.

Event Date: 
12/15/2020 - 5:30pm
Event location: 

Virtual Event -

Every year the Providence League of Women Voters assists the Providence School Board Nominating Commission with running a forum for School Board candidates.

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LWVRI - Providence

The League of Women Voters Providence serves the city of Providence and the surrounding area. It is one of the oldest Leagues in the country. It was chartered in 1919, very shortly after the League of Women Voters was created as a division of the National American Women Suffrage Association at the NAWSA convention in St. Louis, MO March 1919.

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LEAGUE POSITION ON REFERENDUM 90

Submitted by MASON COUNTY in October 2020.

Position

The LWV Washington State and LWV Mason County supports Approval of Referendum 90
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School Board Observers’ Reports

Submitted by PASADENA AREA in October 2020.

News

Pasadena Unified School District Board Meeting, September 17, 2020

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School Observer Reports

Submitted by PASADENA AREA in September 2020.

News

The schools were closed all summer and for the most part remain physically closed. These reports were written between June and August and have been lightly edited for space reasons.

Alhambra

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PROPOSITION 15 PUTS SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST

Submitted by South San Mateo County in September 2020.

Event Date: 
09/08/2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Event location: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrd-GsrDoqHtGAaEwH32W6sLasJEa...

PROPOSITION 15 PUTS SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST

 
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Alternative Schools

Submitted by Moscow in August 2020.

Position

The League of Women Voters of Moscow supports the establishment of an alternative school to serve dropouts, discouraged learners, non-traditional students and other at-risk youth, with the goal of teaching basic skills, vocational education and/or college preparation leading to the attainment of either a high school diploma or a GED.
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SOCIAL POLICY: Education

Submitted by Lexington (MA) in August 2020.

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Tax Increment Financing

Submitted by League of Women Voters of the Homewood Flossmoor Area in June 2020.

Position

Monitor and evaluate the TIF (Tax Increment Financing) and its impact on education funding, economic development and distribution of tax dollars to the community.
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School Finance

Submitted by League of Women Voters of the Homewood Flossmoor Area in June 2020.

Position

Continue monitoring current and proposed new methods of school financing with emphasis on the impact on schools in the H-F area.
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