Arkansas Teacher Salary and School Funding Increase Initiative (2022)
| Arkansas Teacher Salary and School Funding Increase Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Education | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Arkansas Teacher Salary and School Funding Increase Initiative was not on the ballot in Arkansas as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
This measure would have required the Arkansas State Legislature to appropriate an additional $400 per enrolled student in supplemental funding to school districts annually for five years. The measure would have required teachers' salaries to be increased by at least 5% annually for four years.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Arkansas, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Proponents must collect signatures equaling at least half of the designated percentage of gubernatorial votes in at least 50 of the state's counties. Signatures remain valid until the date of the next general election following the certification of ballot language. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear.
The requirements to get initiated constitutional amendments certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 89,151 valid signatures
- Deadline: July 8, 2022—four months prior to the election
If the secretary of state certifies that enough signatures were submitted in a petition, the initiative is put on the ballot. If a petition fails to meet the signature requirement, but the petition has at least 75 percent of the valid signatures needed, petitioners have 30 days to collect additional signatures or demonstrate that rejected signatures are valid.
Details about this initiative
- Arkansas Education Upgrade (Arkansans for World Class Education) filed the measure.[1]
- The group announced on June 1, 2022, that it was ending its effort to qualify the measure for the 2022 ballot. The group wrote, "We currently have less than a quarter of the signatures needed, and not enough canvassers to make up the difference within the month. We are thankful for our supporters and volunteers, and look forward to continuing to work for fully funded public schools in Arkansas."[2]
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State of Arkansas Little Rock (capital) |
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