Sentences with phrase «by powerful interest groups»

Progress has also been made on recommendations that required real change, if they were supported by powerful interest groups in education, especially the teacher unions.

They were controlled by powerful interest groups who cared about things other than student learning.

And so the two houses of the Legislature aligned against each other, each backed by a powerful interest group: charter school advocates who have contributed generously to Senate Republicans (and Gov. Andrew Cuomo) and teachers» unions that are core supporters of Assembly Democrats, and see charter schools as a persistent threat.

Often such late opposition by a powerful interest group is enough to kill or postpone a bill in Albany.

Not exact matches

In sum, proxy access is bad public policy, unsupported by the empirical evidence, and the pet project of a powerful interest group.

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The opportunities for religious reform movements to achieve their goals were largely determined, therefore, by the relations present among the state, state church, and other powerful interest groups.

«It's disappointing that Governor Cuomo and some state lawmakers — pushed by powerful, labor - backed special interests — continue to pursue the use of tax dollars to fund partisan political campaigns,» said the group's executive director, Brian Sampson.

This is shaping up to be a showdown between the developer, The Related Companies (and other powerful developers with similar interests) who will be backed by the Bloomberg administration and a coalition of Bronx elected officials and community groups.

Saying their patience is at an end, conservative activist groups backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and other powerful interests on the right are mobilizing to pressure Republicans to fulfill their promise to swiftly repeal the Affordable Care Act.

For the first time in recent memory, the unions were outspent by a directly opposing interest group, and divided, after Cuomo brought some of their most powerful representatives into his decision - making process.

«What we're seing is a growing trend in both the number of gifts and the total value of those gifts given by powerful special interest groups to state lawmakers.»

The teachers union, considered by many to be «the most powerful interest group in the Capitol,» has stepped up its political giving in the wake of Vergara v. California, a landmark court ruling that could ultimately throw out California's teacher tenure system.

In addition, the debate is conditioned by more powerful vested - interest groups.

Unfortunately, science is often treated as just another interest group to be pushed aside by more powerful interests.

Having financed his first election campaign completely out of his deep pockets, Bloomberg was unencumbered by debts owed to the system's entrenched interest groups, including the powerful union representing 80,000 teachers.

The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

Nevertheless, powerful interest groups were able to use the climate of urgency created by the report to get their own preferred policies enacted, even when the policies were not recommended by Risk.

A backroom deal that was manufactured by the state's most powerful special interest groups, which swapped a promising bill out for a reinforcement of the status quo.

One of the most powerful factors that sustain the idea that «I am a member of a group, identified by common interests, and those who are not part of my group are somewhat, if not fundamentally, inferior, or in some other way, opposed to me.»

Both these large powerful interest groups stand to benefit greatly by having rabies mandated by colorable law.»

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

that exposed plans for «local» anti-wind activists to ally with powerful special - interest groups backed by the Koch brothers.

The interrelation and interaction of the many powerful and separate interest groups is shown on this diagram and described by Tony Newbery in this article entitled «A Very Convenient Network?»

Fortunately for these courts, they are increasingly discovering that they can help maintain the space for domestic deliberation and strengthen the ability of their governments to withstand the pressure brought to bear by foreign and local interest groups and powerful foreign governments.