Sentences with phrase «lobbying of board members»

At the district level, this means considerable lobbying of board members and administrators as well as parents.

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Some of the nation's biggest investment firms such as BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors are lobbying for more women board members.

She was an active member of both California Association of Midwives and California Nurse Midwives Association, working as a liaison to the boards of both during the licensed midwife practice act legislation in the 1990s, and lobbied extensively for both CNM and LM legislative efforts.

Since then, members of the school's parent - teacher association have been heavily lobbying the Board of Commissioners to build the playground more quickly.

Residents who belong to the group Citizens for Better Communities, which was formed to muster local support and to lobby government to prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit, were also on hand to thank Hoffman and members of the park board for their actions.

Ms. Consolo noted that 10 percent of all statewide donations last year came from the 16,000 - member Real Estate Board of New York, the lobbying arm for the industry.

In fact, board members of the Friends of the High Line group and the Real Estate Board of New York have donated a combined $ 370,000 to her campaign and Jamestown has spent more than $ 670,000 lobbying to her and other officboard members of the Friends of the High Line group and the Real Estate Board of New York have donated a combined $ 370,000 to her campaign and Jamestown has spent more than $ 670,000 lobbying to her and other officBoard of New York have donated a combined $ 370,000 to her campaign and Jamestown has spent more than $ 670,000 lobbying to her and other officials.

The Cuomo administration aggressively interfered when the Commission started asking questions of the Real Estate Board of New York, the powerful trade group that has donated generously to Governor Cuomo, and forbade members from investigating the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying group created to support Cuomo,» Teachout said in a statement.

Members of the Wisconsin Contractor Coalition, which formed to oppose right - to - work efforts and has about 350 construction - related businesses on board, are lobbying lawmakers on the issue, said the group's spokesman Steve Lyons.

About a dozen local protesters appeared in the lobby of the New York State Education Department in Albany Wednesday demanding the immediate removal of Buffalo Board of Education member Carl Paladino.

Day lobbied the County Executives of America, an influential non-partisan advocacy group of which he is a board member, to pass a resolution calling for New York to change its policy of requiring counties to pay for Medicaid

Richard Iannuzzi, a nine - year incumbent president of New York State United Teachers, was defeated by a comfortable margin Sunday, and James Jackson, a member of the State Board of Regents, was pressured by lawmakers to resign last month; both are casualties of an emotional controversy that has erupted among parents and teachers and mobilized lobbies with a variety of political goals.

The Reclaim New York Initiative, the nonprofit lobbying arm of the nonpartisan Reclaim New York, has just sent mailings into two Hempstead Town board members» districts essentially calling Santino a bully.

After its formation last year, the committee did release the names of its board members and registered as a lobbying group after some public pressure.

In fact, I was a member of the Board of Overseers at Tufts University, until I successfully lobbied the members to change the racially charged title to the Board of Advisors, of which I am also a member.

That claim startled reform advocates, who quickly noted she was a board member of the state District Attorneys Association when it lobbied against the most recent reforms enacted last year.

I have also lobbied the County Executives of America, an influential non-partisan advocacy group of which I am a board member, to pass a resolution calling for New York to change its policy of requiring counties to pay for Medicaid.

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.

Prior to joining the Charter Center, Erik was the Director of City Legislation for the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, Legislative Director to Council Member Diana Reyna, Campaign Manager to former Council Member Melinda Katz in her race for Comptroller, and Director of Candidate Services at the Campaign Finance Board and Director of Lobbying and Grassroots Organizing for Common Cause / NY.

As CCEA President, Ruben served as a member of the NSEA executive board and as a member of the NSEA lobby team during the 2011 and 2013 legislative sessions.

The election launch comes after members of the headteacher boards voiced concerns anonymously to Schools Week that multi-academy trusts were lobbying to get multiple trust members on the boards in May.

Around 8:00 pm, as seven weary Board members were debating a proposal put forth by Board member Steve Zimmer calling on the district and state to bring greater transparency to the parent trigger signature - gathering process, Superintendent John Deasy suggested that the Board might as well lobby Sacramento to repeal the law instead of just lobbying Sacramento to change it (as the original Zimmer resolution requested).

The NEA and the AFT also have extraordinary millions of dollars extracted from their members to lobby for policies they want to have enacted by Congress, state legislatures and school boards and also to elect their favored political candidates.

Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), the charter school lobby group formed by the board members of Achievement First, Inc. has spent more than any other organization lobbying for Malloy's Education Reform bills.

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 proBoards 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 proboards 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.

As a board member of a national charity, Amanda lobbies and negotiates with corporate businesses to actively involve them in profit reinvestment in community for the purpose of enriching the lives of children with severe medical conditions.

Members also voted to make changes to the charter school application and processes [see here for details] and they voted to ask the State Board of Education to lobby the General Assembly for special waivers related to charter school expansion.

Teachers - union members were even more blunt in their opposition: «Let's be very clear and dispel any notion that the school board majority, representing more than $ 15 million in political donations from the charter lobby, is here in the best interest of our public schools,» charged United Teachers Los Angeles secretary Arlene Inouye.

Shortly after a divided Baltimore County school board voted to hire Verletta White as superintendent last month, dissenting members began a lobbying effort to ask the state schools chief to do something none of her predecessors have done in at least a half - century.

He lobbied the board members to oust Winterkorn in favor of Porsche CEO Matthias Mueller, and that triggered the row with board members, according to German news accounts.

Two board members of the conservative group are registered lobbyists for Navient, according to the article, while another board member works for a lobbying firm that serves student and payday lenders.»

don't nobody knock message boards: i participate in three which are absolute mustard: given the right kind of people and enough mutual association, they are the best way to swap ideas and even cooperate on projects (case in point: the TMF banking board successfully staged a fight against the Irish minister of finance to defend a bond widely held by its members — including legal action and political lobbying): there is something about the mechanism of general conversation in a small group of like - minded friends that can really take off

We ask only that you join our lobbying effort if you are a member of any National Breed Club, officer of any local Kennel Club, or board member of any Dog Legislation group.

I saw the «war perfected» tv spot at least once a night through late february / early march on various channels later in the evening... it is definitely a matter of the playstation 3's current owner base... and a little less on advertising than a lot of people make it out to be... and its not just advertising; but largely word of mouth... something that killzone as a franchise simply doesn't have yet... but in the end I simply don't know why anyone would care... the game is still brilliant, easily the best looking game of this generation so far... with a multiplayer component that implemented new mechanics that will become standard across the board... and with plans of tons of future DLC, some free, some not... the game will only get better from here... damn it though I just want GG to get the server lobby right... nothing has been delivered yet on what that douche bag producer kyle guy told us would be there... playing with 2 or 3 friends is easy... playing with 8 non clan members in a full 32 player server is as easy as chewing on your own elbow...

Robert A. Sirico Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 James H. Steele Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 Ruthann Swanson Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 I.W. (Irwin) Tucker Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 Gerd - Ranier Weber Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/06 John Zarling Former Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/03 Owen Mcshane on CFACT delegation to UNFCCC bali conference Dec 07 Source: CFACT bali report Vincent Gray On CFACT delegation at UNFCCC conference in Bali, December 07 Source: CFACT bali report David Evans part of «Team Bali» lobby team 2007 at UNFCCC meeting Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Joanne Nova on «Team Bali» lobby team, 2007 Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Owen Mcshane member of «team bali» 2007 unfccc lobby team Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Bali report Marc Morano Source: CFACT - Marc Morano

«Senators ask U.S. Chamber of Commerce board member companies about the Chamber's Big Tobacco lobbying efforts,» Elizabeth Warren US Senator for Massachusetts.

Morgan, a former board member of the Reserve Bank and President of the Business Council of Australia, is currently a member of the lobby group Australians for Northern Development and Economic Vision, which wants to create a separate economic zone in the north of Australia with low - tax and low - regulation to promote mining industries.

She / he will also support the Association's lobbying and advocacy activities with federal, state and local officials, and communicate the restaurant industry's position on healthcare policy issues to all stakeholders (member companies, Board of Directors, elected officials, etc).

For several reasons including the closure and / or loss of staff at two of the founding member organizations a decision was made by the 2020 Mom board of directors to continue the two core functions of the NCMMH, federal advocacy and lobby days and Maternal Mental Health awareness (including the MMH Awareness week social media campaign and promotion of The Blue Dot) under the 2020 Mom brand.

As a member in different boards of directors and advisory boards of nonprofit parent organisations, Olivier also lobbies with government and official institutes.

Luckily, he was overheard speaking with the desk folks in the lobby of one hotel, and was offered a spot on a pullout couch by a guest who happened to be a former board member of a YMCA.

At the nightly wine slosh in the B.C. hotel lobby, presidents - elect of two B.C. boards chat about the future, given both are bleeding members, lack executive officers, and are exploring new technology.

The lobbying efforts of Toronto Real Estate Board members paid off, at least temporarily, when the City of Toronto deferred a decision on a proposed second land transfer tax.

«For years, the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board and its member Realtors have lobbied to gain a full post-graduate and research university south of the FraserRiver,» says board President David RiBoard and its member Realtors have lobbied to gain a full post-graduate and research university south of the FraserRiver,» says board President David Riboard President David Rishel.

The CREA assembly also gave the association's board of directors the opportunity to update its members on its latest lobbying efforts regarding the federal government's anti-money laundering legislation.

The lobbying efforts of Toronto Real Estate Board members paid off, at least temporarily, when the City of Toronto deferred a decision on a...