Sentences with phrase «major financial backer»

Part of the concern is due to her past support of charter schools and connections to Broad, as well as her connections to Bill Gates and the Walton family, who are also major financial backers of charter schools that directly threaten union teacher jobs.

Proenza Schouler's major financial backers want out, reports WWD.

General Mills is also represented by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a powerful lobbying group and major financial backer of the campaigns that defeated proposed GMO labeling laws in California and Washington.

He was a major financial backer of the revolutionary cause in Boston and the president of the Second Continental Congress.

Wind Mobile will be fully owned and controlled by VimpelCom subsidiary Orascom, which already has a 65.1 per cent stake in the company and was major financial backer, chairman and CEO Anthony Lacavera said Friday.

Congressional Republicans would be more willing to stand up to Donald Trump if their major financial backers — big business and Wall Street — had more backbone.

Paladino rarely donates to black political candidates and was a major financial backer of Brown's opponents for mayor in 2005 and 2009.

Sheinkopf was a major financial backer of the poster boy for unethical behavior, Pedro Espada, and 2.)

The hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused the African - American woman who leads the Democrats in the New York State Senate of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

Despite the fact that many Senate Republicans do not have many charter schools in their districts — the schools are concentrated in New York City — the conference has been a staunch supporter of their major financial backers.

Funding for the project comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — which also was a major financial backer for the development of the common core — the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

As Zimmerman admits, they'd face an uphill battle for funding, as the major financial backers of the movement prefer supporting charter networks that can grow.

Sackler also created 50 CAN, a national charter school advocacy group and Sackler was a major financial backer and advocate for Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company formed by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's former commissioner of and his associate, Dacia Toll, who now serves as the CEO of Achievement First, Inc..

The Dodge Jones Foundation was the major financial backer of the renovation of the building and the revitalization of downtown Abilene.