Sentences with phrase «education lobbyists say»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

As you'll recall, Cuomo said during his State of the State address that he would be the self - appointed «lobbyist» for public school students this year, taking on what he perceives to be the bloated bureaucracy in the education system.

Cuomo also famously doubled down on tying education funding to performance and pushing for greater teacher accountability, saying: «l learned that everyone in public education has his or her own lobbyist.

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.

Cuomo says he will be the lobbyist for the students, and he called for a new commission, appointed jointly by the governor and legislature, to reform the state's education system, demanding greater accountability.

The governor reserved his deepest criticism for the education community, saying all of the major factions are represented by lobbyists.

And, she noted, that while Cuomo said teachers and bus drivers had lobbyists, he did not mention hedge fund managers, representatives of testing and technology companies, and privatization advocates, all of whom have weighed in on education and who have 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.

«This is a very important win, but it's still an uphill battle,» said Michael Edwards, a lobbyist for the National Education Association.

Private - school lobbyists are also worried that partisan enmity stirred up by their advocacy of school choice could deny them participation in new education - reform programs, some sources say, and even make it difficult for them to influence next year's reauthorization of most major precollegiate - education programs.

«It's still hard to say what will happen, but we're thankful the administration plan is holding firm on education,» said Joel Packer, a lobbyist for the National Education Asseducation,» said Joel Packer, a lobbyist for the National Education AssEducation Association.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan kicked off the meeting with a group that included national and regional education advocates, lobbyists, and others looking for policy updates, by saying the department still hopes to get $ 300 million from Congress for a new early - childhood education inEducation Arne Duncan kicked off the meeting with a group that included national and regional education advocates, lobbyists, and others looking for policy updates, by saying the department still hopes to get $ 300 million from Congress for a new early - childhood education ineducation advocates, lobbyists, and others looking for policy updates, by saying the department still hopes to get $ 300 million from Congress for a new early - childhood education ineducation initiative.

«A lot of my members are concerned that she's never been seen as an advocate for public education,» said Dan Rossmiller, lobbyist for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards.

«We all came here under the belief that parents ought to be able to direct the education of their kids,» said Grant Callen, head of Empower Mississippi, one of the leading lobbyists for school choice in the state.

Wisconsin Education Association Council president Betsy Kippers, a Racine teacher, said the «fingerprints of the voucher and privately run charter lobbyists are all over this.»

But Molpus said legislators need to move past smaller issues promoted by lobbyists and special interest groups and instead take «giant steps» in education reform.

Evers also said part of his work to provide schools with guidance on how to reduce gaps in achievement will come through a council convened of educators, education - related lobbyists and lawmakers that Evers heads to figure out how Wisconsin will carry out the measures of the new federal education law Every Student Succeeds Act.