Sentences with phrase «lobbying organization with»

In the wake of this morning's NY Times story and subsequent criticism from the good government community, the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York is filing paperwork today to register as a lobbying organization with the Committee on Public Integrity.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schools.

The truth is that some certifying organizations are simply business - affiliated groups or lobby organizations with minimal if any certification standards.

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Tech companies and trade organizations disclosed they had 48 arrangements with lobby groups that discussed NAFTA with administration officials or lawmakers in the second quarter, up from 17 groups in the first quarter and one group at the end of 2016, according to the data.

These organizations grew from small grass - roots groups to highly professionalized, slick lobbying operations with the aid of Atlantic money, and all were prominent in the campaign to pass this referendum.

The South African soccer team the Kaiser Chiefs organized a national awareness day; in Burkino Faso, activists partnered with a trucking union for monitoring purposes; drivers of moto - taxis in Thailand keep watch for child sex exploitation; Nepalese trafficking survivors formed Shakti Samuaha, a nongovernmental organization that lobbies officials to make policy changes; organizations in Bangladesh have focused specifically on the taboo topic of male prostitutes and have opened shelters for exploited children.

IFOAM Latin America is a non-profit organization with a high level of capacity to lobby for organic agriculture, integrated by IFOAM members and supporters and individuals working in favor of Organic Agriculture in the region.

Gaskin presides over a large multi-faceted business empire comprised of trade, propaganda and lobbying organizations, all with one purpose in mind: allowing uneducated women like herself to provide substandard medical care to pregnant women while ignoring the growing pile of tiny bodies.

Many school districts complied with USDA requirements by downloading «boilerplate» policy templates from agribusiness lobbying organizations such as the American Dairy Council or state Departments of Education.

ICYMI: Last night on CapTon, AG Eric Schneiderman backed up the Cuomo administration's claim that the Committee to Save New York is a lobbying organization — not a PAC — and therefore cooperation with an elected official is perfectly legal.

He has long expressed frustration with the efforts by public education and teachers union organizations lobbying and pressuring him to increase school aid.

At the moment, neither Public Campaign Action Fund or a related organization, Friends of Democracy, has filed an intent to lobby letter with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics — a documented required when the cost of seeking to influence state government is expected to be more than $ 5,000 for any given entity.

The NRA, an influential lobbying group with more than 5 million members nationwide, declined to comment on Tenney's previous tweet about the organization, which has been deleted from her Twitter account.

The NRA is the nation's largest gun rights organization with about five million members, and a powerful lobbying organization that wields significant influence on Capitol Hill.

Records show the consulting firm that formed the advocacy organization subsequently signed a $ 20,000 - a-month lobbying contract with a New York City taxi company.

Instead, Ryan filed an ethics complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics pointing to testimony in a Yonkers corruption trial from disbarred attorney Anthony Mangone that alleged Libous had arranged for his son to receive a job at a law firm paid for by $ 50,000 from a lobbying organization.

The organizations formed an umbrella group with press done by Cuomo ally Jennifer Cunningham, New Yorkers United for Marriage, in order to consolidate lobbying efforts and follow a Cuomo - style brand of message discipline.

Rules covering tax exempt organizations prohibit lobbying or acting in a partrisan manner — with the penalty being loss of tax exempt status.

New York's largest agricultural lobbying organization has a number of priority issues, and it outlined the top three on a conference call with reporters this morning.

When I asked Conservative politicians in New York what part the national lobby would play, most tended to agree with Thomas D. Cook, chairman of the Monroe County party organization: «I think they're full of smoke.»

For instance, Senator Squadron says, it's difficult to determine whether ALEC, incorporated as a 501 - C 3 charity, is a lobbying organization and should be registered with the state ethics commission.

The group had been one of the more visible pro-charter schools organizations in New York politics, backing rallies and lobby days that included teachers and children descending on the Capitol to bolster the issue with lawmakers.

According to disclosures filed with the state, the organization's lobbying efforts were related to property taxes, rent regulation, building safety and water rates.

Look at the bill, it is full of broad sweeping provisions and disclosure requirements that have nothing to do with campaign expenditures that include organizations that aren't even involved in lobbying, but pure issue advocacy.

In an interview Thursday with CNN, LCR Spokesperson Charles Moran said the organization is lobbying New York Republicans to help pass the same - sex marriage law championed by the state's Democratic Gov. David Paterson.

The trial lawyers, who had a close relationship with former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, employ their own small army of top lobbying firms and spent a combined $ 687,700 on campaign contributions in 2015, making their organization, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the second largest donor in the state.

The administration handed response duties to Rodney Capel, executive director of the State Democratic Committee, who said in a statement that CREW was «not a credible organization on this topic» and included a link to a 2011 story about Executive Director Melanie Sloan's flirtation with a career in corporate lobbying.

The organization's early years chronicled the dawn of the nuclear age and the birth of the scientists» movement, as told by the men and women who built the atomic bomb and then lobbied with both technical and humanist arguments for its abolition,» states the organization's Web site.

And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.

Also available in each office are publications issued by Independent Sector on a variety of topics related to the Tax Reform Act of 1976 and subsequent actions by the congress and the IRS which are concerned with lobbying limitations for non-profit organizations.

Most higher education lobbying is done by organizations such as the American Council on Education (ACE), the Association of American Universities, and — with a more specific focus on international aspects — NAFSA: The Association of International Educators.

Her overall message, often embellished with adjectives and subjective remarks, appeals to some questionable characters sympathetic to or subservient to the Weston A Price Foundation, a farm lobbying group whose advocates and apologists have accused me of being a «fraud», a «liar», a «buffoon» and (earlier) an associate of a «terrorist» organization.

The environmental working group, a watchdog organization behind the Skindeep database, has a great site with frequently updated information about ongoing studies, research and lobbying efforts

At least as far as organization goes, it's easier to find people to play with, access lobbies, create rooms for friends, and so on.

For well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political ends.

According to the latest reports filed with the Office of State Ethics, this organization has spent over a quarter of a million dollars lobbying in just the past eight days.

• Stand for Children Oregon, in 2008 - 09, successfully lobbied for funding for a mentoring program for new teachers and worked with other nonprofit organizations on a project to improve teacher professional development.

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.

Then at 18:41: «What TASA really is is a lobbying organization to put out information, that while it may look like it is supporting the administrators, actually what it's doing is keeping everybody locked in place because TASA works in conjunction with Congress.

Officials with the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), a Raleigh - based organization that lobbies for teachers at the General Assembly, expressed concern with the absence of any class - size funding.

Luckily for Barth, and thanks in part to a $ 100,000 - a-year lobbying contract with one of Connecticut's most influential lobbying firms, Achievement First, Inc. (and its associated organizations ConnCAN and ConnAD) were able to convince the Connecticut General Assembly to pass a law in 2010 that exempted Connecticut's charter schools from Connecticut's mandatory teacher and administrator certification requirements.

And Ms Hawkins what is the reason you end your piece with this comment... «This is a «Minnesota Nice» version of union thuggery,» said Brian Sweeney, director of external affairs for Charter School Partners (CSP), the organization that lobbied for the alternative certification laws two years ago.

In 1926, after lobbying with schools and organizations, Carter Godwin Woodson launched the 1st annual Black History week.

By singling out the NAACP with multiple editorials, protests and letter - writing campaigns, the charter lobby threw cheap shots at one of our most historic civil rights organizations with the intent to rally the charter base.

New Profit, Inc. also funds Achievement First, Inc., a charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and the Achievement Network and Turnaround for Children, two more pro-charter school lobby and public relations organizations.

The underlying problem is that the present environment for reform is clouded, in part, by the fact that Achievement First has not been honest about its relationship with ConnCAN and its ongoing effort to use other organizations to lobby for its goals.

(Va.) A well - connected lobbying organization closely aligned with conservatives has taken up the cause of charter school funding with an emphasis on facilities.

Connecticut law clearly requires that any individual or organizations engaged in lobbying MUST register and file monthly reports with the Office of State Ethics.

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.

Of course, none of those organizations should be confused with Connecticut's other Pro-Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry lobby groups which include Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) or their new front - group called the Connecticut School Finance Project.