Louisiana Education Act, Ballot Measure 4 (October 2003)
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The Louisiana Education Act, Ballot Measure 4 was on the ballot in Louisiana on October 4, 2003, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. This measure proposed that failing schools could be taken over by the state.[1][2][3]
Election results
| Louisiana Measure 4 (October 2003) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 647,950 | 59.79% | ||
| No | 435,826 | 40.21% | ||
Election results via: Louisiana Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| To authorize the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to supervise, manage, and operate any public elementary or secondary school determined to be failing or to provide for others to do so; to authorize the state board to receive, control, and expend state minimum foundation program money and local money contributed pursuant to the minimum foundation program or otherwise in amounts calculated based on the number of students in attendance in such a school, all in the manner and in accordance with law. (Amends Article VIII, Section 3(A))[4][5] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Official Election Results," October 4, 2003
- ↑ Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, "Voting on Louisiana Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1978-2015," accessed November 3, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2003 Constitutional Amendments," accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2003 Constitutional Amendments," accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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