Florida, Amendment 1

Florida Amendments: How to vote on partisan school board elections, according to 6 newspapers
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Do you know what Amendment 1 — "make school board races partisan" — means and whether you'll vote "yes" or "no"?
Amendment 1 fails: Florida voters reject partisan election of school board members
Millions of Floridians have cast their votes in the 2024 General Election. Six proposed constitutional amendments were on the November ballot.
Florida voters reject amendment on partisan school board elections
Florida voters rejected an amendment to the State Constitution that would have required school board members to be elected in a partisan election. Florida law currently requires school board candidates to run in non-partisan races,
Elections are done. What headaches are waiting for winners on the new Duval School Board?
Blount's victory concluded what the party previously described on Twitter as “the Duval GOP’s six-year strategy to remake the Duval County School Board. This makes Jacksonville, Florida one of the few major cities in America with a truly conservative school board.”
Jupiter-area school board election results: Matthew Lane wins
Voters in the Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens areas have chosen Matthew Jay Lane to represent them on the school board, according to election results reported by the Supervisor of Elections Office Tuesday night.
In Deep-Red Florida, Voters Reject Partisan School Board Races
Florida’s amendment—approved by the state’s Republican legislature and championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who began to endorse local school board candidates in 2022—was part of a push by national conservative groups to make school board races partisan .
Amendment 1: should Florida school board elections become partisan?
The ballot language reads in part: “Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to require members of a district school board to be elected in a partisan election rather than a nonpartisan election and to specify that the amendment only applies to elections held on or after the November 2026 general election..."
Florida voters reject the partisan school board amendment
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Florida Amendment 1 Election Results: Require Partisan School Board Elections
This amendment would require that district school board members be chosen in a partisan election, instead of a nonpartisan one. race called Live analysis of the results › Nearly every county in Pennsylvania shifted toward Trump,
Florida voters say no to school board partisanship, yes to school taxes
Voters across Florida had their say on how they want their public education system to work going forward. Partisan elections ... Statewide, they rejected a proposal to inject more partisan politics into the system.
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Election 2024 Results: Amendment 1 fails, leaving school board races nonpartisan
would have changed Florida's Constitution so that — starting in 2026 — school board candidates would have to run in ...
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Florida's school board elections became nonpartisan in 1998. Amendment 1 could undo that
But, this election, Florida's Constitution could be amended to make school board races partisan, meaning candidates would have to disclose whether they are Democrats, Republicans or members of ...
A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway
A school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after ...
Opinion
Florida’s public education wins in 2024 election with the defeat of ballot amendment | Opinion
Editorial: The rejection of Amendment 1 was a small defeat for Ron DeSantis. But let’s not overstate its political implications.
Florida agency stalled revelation on Rep. Amesty’s family school until after election
After two weeks of silence, a Florida agency disclosed it has granted a short license extension to state Rep. Carolina Amesty ...
Election Day 2024: See results for Escambia, Santa Rosa County, Florida
Live Florida election results from Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024 voting. Follow along to see who won and who lost in local, state and ...
Marijuana, abortion, partisan school elections: Which Florida amendments passed, which failed?
Note that these are unofficial results as of 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5 − Election Day − and the final numbers may be different. ...
Boca Raton school board election results: Gloria Branch, Mindy Koch face off for open seat
The polls close at 7 p.m. Check back here for updates on the Boca Raton school board election as results begin to come in ...