Not exact matches
The Sikh Coalition, United Sikhs and the Sikh American Legal Defense and
Education Fund are
lobbying members of Congress in an effort to pressure federal transportation authorities to re-examine a policy they say unfairly scrutinizes members of the Sikh community.
Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult
education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs;
funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick;
lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.
But she is a longtime political activist who has
lobbied for better
education funding, marriage equality and women's rights, and she has campaigned for such politicians as President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The 51 - year - old New York native and Grammy, Emmy and Tony winner has never held public office, but as an activist she has
lobbied extensively for better
education funding and advocated for gay rights.
It was announced on Wednesday that Felder secured some $ 200,000 in discretionary
funds for «
education access» programs for Agudath Israel, the
lobbying force that helped fight state efforts to impose instructional standards on yeshivas... What secular
education young boys receive typically ends at the equivalent of about seventh grade, with only minimal English and reading studied after that.
Meanwhile, the flow of political donations from centenarian Leonard Litwin's Glenwood slowed to a trickle following the arrests in Albany, and the real estate industry as a whole is falling behind in spending as hedge
funds pump money into
lobbying for
education reform.
At 1:30 p.m., parents, students, educators and advocates from the Alliance for Quality
Education call on Sens. George Amedore and Jim Tedisco to to
fund «real» Foundation Aid for public schools and not «need - neutral» aid,
lobby outside state Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.
At 11 a.m., United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew hosts UFT
Lobby Day lunch for hundreds of teachers and parents from New York City who will meet with the local members of the Legislature to
lobby for more
education funding and other issues.
To accompany their
lobby day, which is expected to draw some 500 parents and students to Albany, the Alliance for Quality
Education has released a hard - hitting video that casts the school
funding disparity in starkly racial terms.
What you say here about
education funds could be said about any major budget line —
education, medicaid, welfare, roads, and so on.There are always those who demand cuts and those who
lobby to have the
funds increased.
Lobbying done by UFT members in Albany on March 9 helped boost state
education funding, which UFT President Michael Mulgrew called «a down payment on the state's debt to public
education.»
Among their priorities: local
funding support to combat opioid drug addiction, state
lobbying for tougher laws against drug dealers, greater
education and outreach regarding drug addiction and prevention, and better assessment tools for health professionals and first responders to help those at risk of becoming addicts and those in danger of repeat overdoses.
The firm's most recent client is the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregation of America, which this month began paying Jenkins» firm $ 15,000 a month through the end of next year to
lobby on
education funding.
More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to
lobby state lawmakers for more public school
funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important
education initiatives.
Meanwhile,
education advocates on Tuesday began their
lobbying efforts with a rally calling on more equitable
funding for high - needs schools across the state.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan is in Albany today to
lobby for the
education investment tax credit, a tax break in return for donations to schools or scholarship
funds.
Specifically, members of the National Association of Administrators of State and Federal
Education Programs (naasfep) lobbied their Congressional delegations to vote against the consolidation of existing categorical education programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of funding, and to work actively against the passage of Pre
Education Programs (naasfep)
lobbied their Congressional delegations to vote against the consolidation of existing categorical
education programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of funding, and to work actively against the passage of Pre
education programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of
funding, and to work actively against the passage of President...
They were helped by a
lobbying blitzkrieg led by Joe Williams and former Bloomberg campaign manager Bradley Tusk, who put together, with ample
funds from Wall Street,
Education Reform Now (ERN), a group with a single purpose: to bring the state legislature into the RttT reform fold.
Melissa Benn, chair of the campaign group, said on its crowdfunding page: «The
funds we raise with this campaign will support our work
lobbying politicians, raising awareness of the problems with selection, and working with schools, local authorities and communities who want to avoid selective
education.
Hastings provided start - up
funding for the Aspire Public Schools charter network and helped start and
fund EdVoice, a lobbying group, and the NewSchools Venture Fund, which supports education entreprene
fund EdVoice, a
lobbying group, and the NewSchools Venture
Fund, which supports education entreprene
Fund, which supports
education entrepreneurs.
Washington — Despite vigorous
lobbying by higher -
education groups, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week approved a bill directing the bulk of federal vocational -
education funds to secondary schools.
In 1984, thanks to the
lobbying efforts of NYSUT, Teacher Resource and Computer Training Centers were established and
funded by the New York State Legislature under
Education Law 316.
(See: In violation of state
lobbying laws, corporate
education reform group develops Malloy's disastrous special
education funding proposal.)
Needless to say, when a public
education cabal uses a communication system
funded by taxpayers to
lobby against those same taxpayers while helping create PACs dedicated to electing tax - and - spend educators, any action in opposition becomes like screaming into the wind.
The Connecticut Council for
Education Reform (CCER) is a corporate funded lobbying and advocacy group that is working to support Governor Malloy's education reform ini
Education Reform (CCER) is a corporate
funded lobbying and advocacy group that is working to support Governor Malloy's
education reform ini
education reform initiatives.
Local and state
education leaders lobbied Wednesday the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform for more flexibility on how they use sta
education leaders
lobbied Wednesday the Joint Legislative Task Force on
Education Finance Reform for more flexibility on how they use sta
Education Finance Reform for more flexibility on how they use state
funds.
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
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
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.
Still, the efforts by CCEA and other public
education advocates to
lobby for more
funding will gain more traction with lawmakers if and when community support steps up.
The list of corporate -
funded education reform entities that reported
lobbying Malloy and the legislature in 2015 included Achievement First, Inc., the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now Inc..
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.
CCSA's well
funded lobby wing is trying to push the deeply flawed bill through the
Education and Local Government committees even though the bill endangers local school districts.
1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully
lobbied Congress for special
funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA
lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their
education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - s
education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense
Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - s
Education Act 1964: NEA
lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual
Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - s
Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement
funds 2000s: NEA has
lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple
Also, many new players in the
education field — hedge
funds, foundations, and other external groups — are now engaging in direct
lobbying of policy makers and are having an important impact on how policy makers may be developing new reforms.
Thousands of New York City school teachers contribute small sums ($ 5 top $ 25 dollars) to the UFT's Committee on Political
Education fund, which raises about $ 10 million a year for
lobbying and protests.
All together the various corporate
funded «
education reform» groups dropped another $ 1.4 million, over the last six months, to promote and
lobby on behalf of Governor Dannel Malloy's anti-teacher,
education reform initiatives that included diverting even more scarce public
funds to privately owned, but publicly
funded charter schools.
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» in
Education Reform, a corporate
funded lobby group that has spent over $ 160,000
lobbying on behalf of Malloy's «
education reform» in
education reform» initiative.
Alonso's speech marked the first public acknowledgment that the city hopes to model its construction
funding plan on a groundbreaking schools project in Greenville, S.C. Transform Baltimore, a coalition of
education advocates led by the American Civil Liberties Union, has been
lobbying city leaders to carry out Greenville's plan, which would require a nonprofit or other entity to float the bonds on behalf of the school system.
Prior to the Malloy administration even announcing that they would be releasing the 2015 SBAC results today, the state's two major corporate
funded education reform lobby groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBAC
education reform
lobby groups, ConnCAN and the Connecticut Council for
Education Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBAC
Education Reform (CCER), invited reporters to join a «media call» in which the groups would discuss the SBAC results.
ConnAD was a primary
funder behind the
lobbying effort to pass Malloy's
education bill last spring, and more recently, helped
fund Mayor Bill Finch's failed effort to eliminate a democratically elected board of
education in Bridgeport and replace it with one appointed by the Mayor.
After spending hundreds of millions on
lobbying, these groups were able to persuade tea - bag and conservative Republican governors and legislatures to repeal collective bargaining for teachers, limited bargaining rights for others, dramatically expanded
funding for charter schools or otherwise undermine what most would describe as the American public
education system.
When Governor Malloy proposed his «
education reform» legislation earlier this year, these groups,
funded by millionaire and billionaire hedge
fund owners, along with the Gates, Walton and Broad Foundations, engaged in the most costly
lobbying, advertising and public relations effort in Connecticut history.
Pryor and other charter school advocates claim that the Amistad Academy and other charter schools provide a measurably better
education than do public schools and are engaged in an all out
lobbying and public relations campaign to change the way Connecticut
funds its schools, shifting scarce resources from our public schools to the charter schools.
Watch the bouncing ball... as the Corporate
Education Reform Industry, Families for Excellent Schools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school
lobby groups try to divert even more public
funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school companies...
In her latest commentary piece entitled, Charter
lobby chases cut of public
funds, and first published in the Stamford Advocate, public
education advocate, Wendy Lecker, lays out the issue.
At the same time, local school boards are simply unwilling to exert their authority and ask the important questions while complying with directives of the State Department of
Education while CABE, CAPSS, CAS, CBIA, CCER, and ConnCAN — working in collusion as Big Six Partners follow a roadmap designed by The Common Core Funder's Working Group in the Fall 2012 — continue to work behind scenes and in the media to lobby for «corporate education reform» with its top - down imposed Common Core State Standards and their unproven destructive test p
Education while CABE, CAPSS, CAS, CBIA, CCER, and ConnCAN — working in collusion as Big Six Partners follow a roadmap designed by The Common Core
Funder's Working Group in the Fall 2012 — continue to work behind scenes and in the media to
lobby for «corporate
education reform» with its top - down imposed Common Core State Standards and their unproven destructive test p
education reform» with its top - down imposed Common Core State Standards and their unproven destructive test protocols.
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
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
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.
Excel Bridgeport, the corporate
funded education reform group that has been
lobbying for Bridgeport's public school privatization efforts reported spending $ 101,803.36.
In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently
lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «
education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public
funds.
Along with Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst and other corporate
funded education reform groups, ConnCAN's
lobby levels broke all previous records for legislative
lobbying.
The number of corporate
funded education reform and charter school front groups in Connecticut is popping up faster than the buds appear during a warm spring week and these groups seem virtually incapable of adhering to Connecticut's ethics and
lobbying laws.