Sentences with phrase «education lobbyists»

For education lobbyists, putting budget cuts in those terms means calculating a deprivation factor.

The only effective education lobbyists would be the well - funded national ones, with their own narrow, intolerant agendas.

But creating an advisory body focused on eliminating government red tape — a tiny provision in a 996 - page bill to accelerate medical research that could become law next month — is no less important to maintaining the health of the research community than is the infusion of billions of dollars, higher education lobbyists say.

The deal announced on Tuesday comes after months of negotiations involving Cuomo, both houses of the Legislature, advocates and higher education lobbyists.

A higher - education lobbyist who follows biomedical issues said shortly before the vote on Smith's bill that her organization wasn't even aware of the narrow definition of STEM fields, and another said her organization had taken no official position on the issue.

WASHINGTON — Several members of the Congressional committees that oversee social - service spending last week criticized education lobbyists here for using what one member termed «pressure tactics» to protect education funding increases.

Cuomo says he's tired of hearing the same «debate» over education that's occurred for the last twenty years, which he says focuses too much on what he calls «high priced» professional education lobbyists and the amount of money to be spent on schools.

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.

The list of those attending the Committee for Education Funding's third annual awards dinner represented a who's who among education lobbyists and included enough Congressional aides to overstuff a Rolodex.

Education lobbyists say HR 2086 would conceivably allow school districts to use federal dollars to pay for vouchers for private school tuition or to pay private companies to provide school services.

Washington — The deficit - reduction measure approved by the Senate last week could threaten the future of many federal education programs, according to education lobbyists and opponents of the bill.

Last week's failure of a massive tobacco - settlement bill in the Senate added new urgency to efforts by the Clinton administration and education lobbyists to find money to pay for class - size reductions and other programs with funding contingent on new cigarette taxes.

But Congressional aides and education lobbyists say that they are generally pleased with the legislative accomplishments in education this year.

Looking for a way to bulk up the Department of Education's budget, some education lobbyists and congressional Democrats had eyed an economic - stimulus plan in Congress as a prime vehicle.

Education lobbyists have pressured the House leadership to increase that amount, and the leaders...