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Proposition 16 would have repealed 1996 California Proposition 209 which amended the California constitution and prohibits government institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and public education. Before Proposition 209, state and local entities had policies and ...
Dedication Of Certain Taxes To Transportation. Appropriation Limit Change. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. 73 – Passed – Campaign Funding. Contribution Limits. Prohibition Of Public Funding. Initiative Statute. 74 – Failed – Deddeh Transportation Bond Act. 75 – Passed – School Facilities Bond Act Of 1988.
One of California's most significant prohibitions is against "cruel or unusual punishment," a stronger prohibition than the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment." The Constitution of California is among the longest in the world. [4]
Granting women the constitutional right to vote in California. Proposition 7 (1911) Passed: Establishing the constitutional direct democracy powers of initiative and referendum in California. Proposition 8 (1911) Passed: Establishing the constitutional direct democracy power of recall in California. Proposition 14 (1964)
Proposition 3, marriage equality: This ballot measure would eliminate outdated language from California’s Constitution that says marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Voters ...
2 – Failed – Vacancies in Specified Constitutional Offices. 3 – Passed – State Budget. 4 – Failed – Appropriation For Public Schools. 5 – Passed – Regents University Of California: Public Meetings. 6 – Passed – Teachers' Retirement Fund: Investments. 7 – Passed – State Colleges: Speaker Member Of Governing Body.
Some of the worst-performing elementary schools in California retrained teachers to teach reading with phonics. A new paper says the change worked.
Erin Friday of Our Duty, an anti-transgender organization, testified in favor of SB 1435, reading lines she considered sexually explicit from books she said are available in middle schools.