Sentences with phrase «lobbyist for students»

AQE's advocacy director Zakiyah Ansari is «appalled» that Cuomo thinks he could be a better lobbyist for students than parents and the students themselves.

This year, I will take a second job - consider me the lobbyist for the students.»

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 man who memorably called himself «the lobbyist for the students» has been painfully absent as the state's top educators struggle to make a case for the standards.

Cuomo, who once said he intended to be the lobbyist for students, has mostly kept out of the debate, saying he understands that big changes can have a rocky start, but that he supports the national shift to the Common Core standards.

It is richly ironic when he called himself the lobbyist for students during his budget message, because he is anything but.