Sentences with phrase «based lobbying organization»

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A San Francisco - based organization is attempting to organize foster parents into a lobbying force.

The endorsements were based off the lobby's legislative scorecards based on priority issues for the organization.

They lobbied their state Senator, who authored the first draft of the bill to remove the Common Core, brought together anti-Common Core organizations from outside the state, and rallied Indiana - based organizations like the Indiana Family Institute and the Indiana Association of Home Educators against the standards.

Perhaps those engaged in arts ed lobbying believe that class - and race - based melodramas best sway elected officials and philanthropic organizations.

«Yeah, I'm lobbying that bill,» Raleigh - based McGuire Woods lobbyist Harry Kaplan told N.C. Policy Watch on Monday of the proposed legislation that he's pushing on behalf of a political organization created by the Oregon financier.

Officials with the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), a Raleigh - based organization that lobbies for teachers at the General Assembly, expressed concern with the absence of any class - size funding.

By singling out the NAACP with multiple editorials, protests and letter - writing campaigns, the charter lobby threw cheap shots at one of our most historic civil rights organizations with the intent to rally the charter base.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

The organization strategically uses resources on a year - to - year basis to engage in lobbying and electoral work where opportunities arise.

Attempts to eliminate the population restriction have historically been thwarted by the Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma, an organization that lobbies based on cost, not compassion.

The AKC also lobbies through the National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA), a lobbying organization for animal commerce and agriculture based in Portland, Oregon.

[11] The AKC also works through the NAIA, a lobbying organization for animal commerce and agriculture based in Portland, Oregon.

The Museum is also working with Visual AIDS — a New York - based organization that supports HIV + artists and uses art to fight the disease — to create a vitrine in the Museum's lobby that features work from the organization, including works on paper by artist Glenn Ligon.