Education lobbyists based here, fearful of the bill's potential impact, are trying to promote opposition to the legislation and are exhorting local school officials to convey their concerns to their Congressional representatives.
Not exact matches
After Governor Scott Walker and the state legislature killed collective bargaining in Wisconsin, the D.C.
based National
Education Association sent its chief of staff, John Stocks, to the Badger State as a
lobbyist.
Merry is a registered
lobbyist, taking both
education and school -
based services concerns to Lansing and Washington, D.C..
Former state superintendent Tony Bennett, who faced ethics charges after accusations of changing A-F grades in 2013, is back in the political game after registering as a
lobbyist to the Florida legislature for an Indiana
based education company.
That's because members of the State Board of
Education are expected to vote on a state official's recommendation to award the job to Achievement for All Children (AAC), a Charlotte -
based organization with very limited experience and very deep ties to the North Carolina General Assembly, the state's burgeoning charter school movement and a powerful school choice
lobbyist.