Sentences with phrase «corporate lobbying spend»

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One study found that corporate lobbying and political campaign spending has been responsible for a significant portion of the rise in corporate profits since 2000.

«A broad coalition of investors wants companies to tell stockholders and the public more about so - called «dark money» spent both in campaigns and on lobbying by groups that use corporate money and don't say where it comes from,» Welsh of Si2 said.

Led by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and Walden Asset Management, ICCR members are shining a light on corporate lobbying and political spending.

Corporate Governance (board independence and diversity, executive compensation, lobbying and political spending)

Corporate Europe Observatory, a Norwegian NGO, estimated that the industry spent one billion Euros on lobbying on this issue.

For example, a lobbyist for a corporate entity could spend Monday and Tuesday meeting with senators on a bill supported by the company and would need to report to JCOPE his or her salary for those days as part of the total spent on the company's lobbying campaign.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

According to the latest lobbying reports filed by the various corporate education reform lobbying groups with the Office of State Ethics, the corporate - funded advocacy organizations that support charter schools, the Common Core and the absurd Common Core testing scheme spent more than $ 1.9 million lobbying Malloy and the legislature in 2015.

The charter school industry and their corporate education reform allies spend tens of millions of dollars — every year — on public relations, lobbying, campaign donations and faux media outlets.

Since Malloy introduced the most anti-teacher, anti-union education reform bill of any Democratic governor in the nation, the corporate reform industry has spent more than $ 6 million lobbying on behalf of Malloy's initiatives.

Over the first 120 days of the 2012 Legislative Session, corporate lobby groups spent over $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill.

While Malloy is touring the state claiming that his goal is to «win back» the respect of teachers, parents and public school advocates, later this week, Commissioner Pryor and SDE Turnaround Director Morgan Barth will be handing the microphone over to the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, a corporate funded lobby group that has spent over $ 160,000 lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «education reform» initiative.

Since the corporate education reform industry began ramping up their lobbying efforts as part of Governor Malloy's education reform initiative of 2012, the various charter school advocates and education reform groups have spent a record breaking $ 8.4 million on behalf of their pro-charter school, pro-Common Core, pro-Common Core testing, anti-teacher agenda.

on Charter School + Corporate Education Reform Industry continue record - breaking spending on lobbying

Rather than spending their time and lobbying funds cheering on Governor Malloy and his corporate education reform industry agenda, perhaps the publicly funded Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) and the publicly funded Connecticut Association of School Superintendents (CAPSS) should stop taking positions that directly undermine their own members — Connecticut's local school boards and superintendents — and start talking about legal and legislative action to force the State of Connecticut to fund this unfunded mandate or postpone the testing debacle until proper funding is provided.

As a group, corporate education form front groups have spent in excess of $ 7 million lobbying on behalf of Malloy's pro-charter school, pro-Common Core, pro-Common Core testing and anti-teacher initiatives.

According to the latest filings with State Ethics Commission, Corporate Education Reform Industry front groups will spend more than a quarter of a million dollars on lobbying during this legislative session.

Excel Bridgeport, the corporate funded education reform group that has been lobbying for Bridgeport's public school privatization efforts reported spending $ 101,803.36.

None of those groups are directly connected to the «other» charter school and Corporate Education Reform Industry groups that have spent money lobbying in Connecticut, including StudentsFirst and Students for Education Reform, which together dropped in over $ 1 million on behalf of Malloy's proposals.

In addition to their lobbying work with ConnCAN, Alexander and Johnson were the individuals who formed A Better Connecticut, Inc. yet another education reform industry front group that spent more than $ 2 million on television ads during the year before the last gubernatorial election to «thank» Governor Malloy for his «leadership» on behalf of the corporate education reform agenda.

Since the corporate education reform industry began ramping up their lobbying efforts as part of Governor Malloy's education reform initiative of 2012, the various charter school advocates and education reform groups have spent a record breaking $ 7.9 million on behalf of their pro-charter school, pro-common core, anti-teacher agenda.

blog post entitled, Buying Public Policy in CT — Corporate Education Reform Industry spends $ 6.8 + million and counting which described the unprecedented lobbying effort behind Governor Malloy's anti-public education, anti-teacher, pro-privatization «education reform» agenda.

Although the three organizations are funded primarily from local taxpayer funds and are supposed to be advocating for local public schools, all three have spent the last three years lobbying for Governor Malloy's restrictive, centralized and top - down Corporate Education Reform Industry agenda... An agenda that undermines local control of education, seeks to limit the rights of parents, denigrates teachers and turns Connecticut's public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories.

Since Malloy introduced his corporate education reform initiative in 2012, charter school and education reform organizations have spent well over $ 7 million on lobbying and advertising — a record - breaking amount for Connecticut.

on Corporate Education Reform Industry spends nearly $ 4.7 million on Connecticut lobbying, little of it telling the truth.

Readers will recall that A Better Connecticut, ConnCAN and other corporate education industry organizations have spent a record $ 6 million and counting lobbying in support of Malloy's education reform initiative to date, including more than $ 2 million in television advertisements thanking Malloy for his «leadership.»

The analysis, done by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy agency based in Wisconsin that tracks corporate influence on public policy, says that four companies — Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw - Hill — collectively spent more than $ 20 million lobbying in states and on Capitol Hill from 2009 to 2014.»

One study found that corporate lobbying and political campaign spending has been responsible for a significant portion of the rise in corporate profits since 2000.

ReadyReturn survived corporate lobbying for one reason: Joe Bankman decided to make easy tax filing his personal mission, and he spent $ 30,000 to hire a lobbyist to counter lobbying by Intuit, the maker of TurboTax software.