Sentences with phrase «education lobby»

Which means he declared war on the teachers unions, parents groups, education schools, and special education lobby.
For the progressive education lobby, the pre-K bill does not go far enough.
But while some of the nation's most prominent education lobby groups are backing the bill, there is apprehension from others that lawmakers might have overreacted to political pressure to limit the role of the federal government — considerably weakening Washington's ability to step in if a state fails to address its most troubled schools.
On April 4, a terse letter signed by the heads of the major education lobbying organizations in Washington — teachers unions, school boards, superintendents, principals and governors — landed on the desk of John King Jr., the secretary of education.
The program has been launched without much apparent participation from the state's traditional education lobby, primarily comprising the state Department of Education, teachers unions and school boards.
«VALUE - ADDED» FORMULAS Nearly lost in the frenzy of education lobbying is a crucial question: Will the proposed fixes make schools better?
While teachers» unions remain near the top of the list of the state's highest - spending interest groups, a position they've occupied for decades, they no longer dominate education lobbying in New York.
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.
The board unanimously decided at its May meeting to delay action on the state education department's proposal, after receiving testimony from more than 100 individuals and representatives of statewide education lobbies during a two - day public hearing last month.
During Barth's tenure as a member of Excel Bridgeport's Board of Directors, the corporate funded education lobbying group led the charge in favor of Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to do away with Bridgeport's elected Board of Education and replace it with one appointed by Finch.
Daria Hall, who directs K - 12 at the Washington, D.C. - based education lobbying and advocacy group the Education Trust, agrees.
The program has been launched without much apparent participation from the state's traditional education lobby, primarily comprising the state Department of Education, teachers unions and school boards.
Especially given that its decision was sure to annoy the intimidating, self - righteous special education lobby, ED showed admirable courage and common sense.
Success — along with its advocacy counterpart, Families for Excellent Schools — dominates education lobbying in Albany during the legislative session.
Most higher education lobbying is done by organizations such as the American Council on Education (ACE), the Association of American Universities, and — with a more specific focus on international aspects — NAFSA: The Association of International Educators.
Parents Across America (PAA) unveiled a report card (in pdf and below) today that gave Michelle Rhee's education lobbying organization, StudentsFirst, failing grades.
Observer conveniently overlooks the rampant corruption in the legislature and the fact that they have been bought lock, stock, and barrel by the special interests in the healthcare and education lobbies.
The state's education lobby is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers to allocate an additional $ 2.2 billion next year for the schools — an increase the groups claim is necessary due to the state's efforts to constrain property taxes.
Those in the education lobby also said school districts wouldn't have time to put the systems in place by this fall since schools will be closed for the summer by the end of June.
Her husband, Dan Senor, sits on the board of the New York affiliate of StudentsFirst, an education lobbying group founded by Michelle Rhee, the controversial former Washington, DC, chancellor who is a leader of the charter school movement.
And members of the education lobby who rarely pass up a chance to secure more funds are lukewarm at best on the measure, with some suggesting the dollars could be better used elsewhere.
Education lobbies had supported the original bill, which would have allowed school districts to propose local - option sales taxes, now reserved for county...
Predictably, the special education lobby has denounced the shift.
Then he caved to the powerful special - education lobby, which refused to accept anything other than expenditures escalating into perpetuity.
He said he wants to «serve notice» on «the education lobby and their friends back on Capitol Hill» that they «can not stop change.»
The bruising seven - month legislative war that ended with the passage of a compromise federal budget changed the terms of the debate on education spending and forced the education lobby to fight for the very survival of the programs it champions.
To make matters worse, the governor unveiled the proposals just as he was also revealing that, in his new budget, he was going to break a promise he had made to the education lobby a year before.
In the shorthand of the traditional education lobby, TER was often tied to the powerful Texans for Lawsuit Reform, sharing common lobbyists.
In addition, it's a safe bet that teachers» unions and every education lobbying and interest group in America will work to stall or kill a bill they don't like.
Which means he just declared war on the teachers» unions, parents» groups, education schools, and the special - education lobby.
Following the talk, Marshall is signing the Kerry James Marshall: Mastry catalogue in the education lobby, as time allows.
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