As an organization, The League of Women Voters of the Akron Area studies various local and national issues facing governments and voters. It then produces position papers about these issues. The League arrives at its positions through research, study and a process of member agreement.

 

As soon as a new issue is chosen, members go after the facts. They draw on a variety of pro-con materials, develop their own resources, turn to experts and public officials for information, directly observe facilities and institutions and draw the community into the decision-making process through public meetings, surveys and media coverage. Research materials are produced and mailed to each member, who then may take part in meetings to discuss the findings. Each member then has the opportunity to express an opinion regarding questions for consensus. Results of the meetings are compiled, and discussed at a League Board meeting. If consensus is arrived at it becomes the basis of League position and action.

 

LWVAA PROGRAM PRIORITIES FOR 2007-2008

EDUCATION

Look at achievement gaps among our students and continue to advocate for college access for all and/or access to job training and re-training. 

Follow the progress of Charter Schools; continue to advocate that our system of common schools meet the learning needs of all of our students and be accountable to the taxpayer.

 

MASS TRANSIT 

Re-study and update regional mass transit with particular attention to natural resources and availability to places of employment.

 

LAND USE

Look at land use as it relates to water quality.

 

GOVERNMENT

The judiciary should be made non-partisan by the use of merit selection [of judges].

 

Additional Information:

League of Women Voters National - To learn more about League positions on national issues, visit the Issues section on the League of Women Voters national website.

League of Women Voters Ohio - Positions taken by the League's Ohio state body can be found in their Advocacy section.

 

imPACT - An initiative of the LWVO  Education Fund and The Joyce Foundation, imPACT is a program designed to give citizens the unbiased, non-partisan facts about the most pressing political reform issues facing Ohio today.

 

VOTE411 - Launched by the League of Women voters Education Fund in October 2006, this site is a "one-stop-shop" for election related information. It provides nonpartisan information to the public with both general and state-specific information on various aspects of the election process.

 

THE NATIONAL VOTER - Read the latest issue of the League's Public Policies magazine.