School-Related Measures on the Ballot in Three States

By Mark Walsh

While most attention in next week's off-year elections has been focused on California's controversial school-voucher initiative, other measures with important implications for education are on the ballot in at least three states.

In California, in addition to the voucher initiative, voters will decide whether to make it easier to pass school-construction bond issues, and whether to extend a state sales-tax increase.

Proposition 170 would allow local voters to approve school-construction bond issues by a simple majority, rather than the two-thirds vote that...