Sentences with phrase «powerful interest groups»

We know that teacher unions are among the most powerful interest groups in state politics, and we know that they spend more money than almost any other organization.

They were controlled by powerful interest groups who cared about things other than student learning.

Pension benefit increases have been a painless way for politicians from both parties to provide something tangible to powerful interest groups without having to pay the costs immediately.

Instead, they are best understood, at least when it comes to compensation policies, as political entities shaped by powerful interest groups, including organized groups of employees.

Opposing the convention is a broad array of powerful interest groups — including most of state's unions and environmental advocates — who argue that it would give business interests and other well - financed groups an avenue to weaken existing labor and environmental protections.

If Crist becomes Florida's next Senator, the teacher unions can claim that they are not only the most powerful interest group in Florida but strong enough to underpin a third - party movement.

The tax code is riddled with special favors for politically powerful interest groups.

Indeed as this podcast shows, when a Congressman is choosing between money from a big powerful interest group or the letters from his constituents, he'll choose the letters every time.

«When gifts are exchanged, a feeling of gratitude is natural, but voters should be concerned how policymakers show their gratitude towards powerful interest groups.»

In contrast to more powerful interest groups, student lobbyists often lack political clout.

The job of secretary is hostage to the basic structure of the U.S. education system, with its tradition of local control and the sway that powerful interest groups hold over national education policy.

Indeed, the plan, nailed down in a late - night negotiating session in a Sacramento hotel, was fashioned to appease powerful interest groups — mainly the teachers union — that opposed the mayor's first proposal to overhaul the district.

Both these large powerful interest groups stand to benefit greatly by having rabies mandated by colorable law.»

«Teachers unions, historically one of the most powerful interest groups in American politics, are being besieged like never before — under attack from conservative GOP governors with a zeal for budget - cutting even while taking fire from some Democrats, including President Barack Obama, who has suggested he agrees that unions can be an impediment to better schools.»

Many Australians are distrustful of powerful interest groups and not easily persuaded to exercise muscle over the powerless.

Progress has also been made on recommendations that required real change, if they were supported by powerful interest groups in education, especially the teacher unions.

The health care proposals drew a sharp and immediate response from two politically powerful interest groups, the Greater New York Hospital Association and 1199 S.E.I.U., the health care workers» union, which, in a joint statement, said the governor's health proposals were «riddled with inaccuracies.»

In his book Fukuyama also describes a process of government decay where the effectiveness of a bureaucracy can be lessened by mistaken policies and by powerful interest groups — see Fukuyama page 464.

And, as Anne Kelly of Ceres has noted, silence does not equal neutrality: industry associations and other powerful interest groups can claim to be speaking for those companies who do not speak for themselves.

Offers a unique history of US health care that has never been told in depth through analysis of the centers of national politics, powerful interest groups, and even individual insurance companies and physicians» offices

These campaign ‐ style battles are being waged through an increasing number of «veiled actors» third ‐ party coalitions with misleading names that ask voters to «Save New York» or fight for «Fiscal Fairness» without revealing the powerful interest groups behind these messages.

And so the two houses of the Legislature aligned against each other, each backed by a powerful interest group: charter school advocates who have contributed generously to Senate Republicans (and Gov. Andrew Cuomo) and teachers» unions that are core supporters of Assembly Democrats, and see charter schools as a persistent threat.

Often such late opposition by a powerful interest group is enough to kill or postpone a bill in Albany.

The teachers union, considered by many to be «the most powerful interest group in the Capitol,» has stepped up its political giving in the wake of Vergara v. California, a landmark court ruling that could ultimately throw out California's teacher tenure system.

Solving the first problem would be straightforward, but solving the second would require a fundamental reform of the system and dislocations in practices that are dear to powerful interest groups.

We know that some things work better than others, and we also know that powerful interest groups (especially the unions) are wedded to the status quo.

If the public, the political parties, and the most powerful interest groups are either apathetic about or hostile to education reform, how can the reformers prevail?

Nevertheless, powerful interest groups were able to use the climate of urgency created by the report to get their own preferred policies enacted, even when the policies were not recommended by Risk.

Politically powerful interest groups must be overcome.

In contrast, conventional elected school boards are often more responsive to powerful interest groups than to the concerns of parents.

Unfortunately, in the Governor's first full day in office, he chose to stand with the state's most powerful interest group that spent millions to elect him, rather than the parents and children of California.»

CTA is powerful, easily the most powerful interest group in the state.

In my own take on Bedford, I wrote that «[t] he government, as the best funded and most powerful interest group of them all, is more likely to have the resources to put together a solid record than those who challenge it.»

For the third year in a row, Fortune magazine has ranked NAR in its annual list of the 25 most powerful interest groups.