Sentences with phrase «lobbied on behalf of school»

Reach Alliance — along with coalition members Commonwealth Foundation, Association of Christian Schools International, Keystone Christian Education Association, Pennsylvania Family Institute, Pennsylvania Catholic Conference and Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association — have lobbied on behalf of school choice since 1991.

Not exact matches

we have been lobbying the USDA (on behalf of ourselves) for over two years to allow schools to use vegetable purees in lunches and meals.

That means lobbying efforts on behalf of the precollegiate community — teachers» unions, principals, school board members, superintendents, state officials, and others — are about to enter a new and more dynamic phase.

Parents lobbying on behalf of charter schools is nothing new.

Rural legislators pay particularly close attention to the interests of these officials and to groups that lobby on their behalf, such as the Louisiana School Boards Association.

Nina Rees, head of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, an advocacy group that lobbies on behalf of charter sSchools, an advocacy group that lobbies on behalf of charter schoolsschools.

Democratic senators have requested more information from DeVos about her history of political donations, as well as her lobbying and advocacy on behalf of school choice programs.

McGuire Woods lobbyist Harry Kaplan explained to N.C. Policy Watch that Education Freedom Alliance was one of their clients and that on their behalf, he was behind lobbying efforts to create an «achievement school district» designed to allow charter school operators to take over the state's poorest performing schools.

Jeanne Allen is founder and president of the Center for Education Reform, a 10 - year - old organization that lobbies on behalf of charter schools and vouchers.

CCSA offers the largest charter schools conference in the country, an email newsletter on charter schools, a comprehensive Web site, professional legislative lobbying on behalf of charter schools, personal technical assistance, workshops, technology services and products, and procurement.

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» 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.

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.

The following chart highlights the Step Right Up, Buy Public Policy organizations that have lobbied on behalf of Malloy's charter school and anti-public education agenda.

Rather, he said, his group has lobbied on behalf of allowing DPI to essentially take over and implement improvement strategies at troubled public schools.

Like some type of gigantic octopus, the pro-charter school, pro-common core, pro-SBAC testing scheme and anti-teacher corporate education reform industry has set up multiple front groups while dumping more than $ 7.9 million dollars into their lobbying effort on behalf of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's «education reform» initiatives.

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.

Finch is a leading supporter of Achievement First's Bridgeport Charter School and is lobbying on behalf of Capital Prep Steve Perry's attempt to use his own private company to open a charter school in BridgSchool and is lobbying on behalf of Capital Prep Steve Perry's attempt to use his own private company to open a charter school in Bridgschool in Bridgeport.

However, what has remained relatively secret is that Bronin's PR person is a well - paid adviser for Families for Excellent Schools, the New York based charter school industry group that spent more than $ 1 million lobbying Connecticut legislators on behalf of Governor Malloy's proposal to divert millions of dollars in scarce state funds so that Bridgeport and Stamford could get new, privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry verSchools, the New York based charter school industry group that spent more than $ 1 million lobbying Connecticut legislators on behalf of Governor Malloy's proposal to divert millions of dollars in scarce state funds so that Bridgeport and Stamford could get new, privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry verschools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry very rich.

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.

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.

It is bad enough that CCER is misleading the public and is lobbying on behalf of an agenda that is hurting students, parents, teachers and public schools, but it is even worse they are doing it with money that belonged to Connecticut consumers.

Meanwhile, Luke Bronin's spokesperson's New York based company received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the charter school industry for coordinating the lobbying campaign on behalf of the charter schools, a proposal that diverted Connecticut taxpayer money that should have been spent on public schools.

The charter school industry has spent in excess of $ 9 million lobbying on behalf of Governor Malloy's charter school and education reform agenda.

In addition, Excel Bridgeport actively lobbied on behalf of Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill and the organization has also spent significant resources in support for Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to change Bridgeport's Charter, by eliminating the elected board of education and replacing it was an appointed board that would allow stronger mayoral control over the education budget and school issues.

The Governor's speech was the culminating highlight of our 4th annual Charter Awareness Day at the Connecticut State Capitol last Thursday, which included informational tabling, lobbying activities, and the presentation of the 2018 Torchbearer Award to Governor Malloy for his tireless work on behalf of public charter school families and kids.