Sentences with phrase «powerful interest groups in»

«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.»

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.

Powerful interest groups in many places, especially large cities, are often antagonistic to the traditional religious values of family, sexual self - control, objective morality, and individual responsibility.

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.

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.

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

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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

In sum, proxy access is bad public policy, unsupported by the empirical evidence, and the pet project of a powerful interest group.

That depends on how effective an interest group is in winning the support of powerful political patrons.

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

As it turns out, they are talking more and more about religious revival, about the rise of new religions, about the worldwide resurgence of fundamentalism, about the enormous impact religion is having on world affairs and, in this country, about the increased prominence of the Religious Right, a movement which may already be the most powerful special interest group in America and which has given ample notice that it doesn't consider its job anywhere near done.

Today's issues are less clear - cut than civil rights or the war in Vietnam; there are no great leaders to rally us, no powerful self - interested groups like the draft resisters of the war period with which to ally ourselves.

Held annually at the exclusive Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, the Pro Tem Cup raises money from Sacramento's most powerful special interest groups to support the California Democratic Party.

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

For the first time in recent memory, the unions were outspent by a directly opposing interest group, and divided, after Cuomo brought some of their most powerful representatives into his decision - making process.

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.»

Special interest groups, party political committees and powerful Super PACs that raise unlimited amounts of money are investing heavily in Buerkle and Maffei — and encouraging people like Broich and Dighe to follow their lead.

«What we're seing is a growing trend in both the number of gifts and the total value of those gifts given by powerful special interest groups to state lawmakers.»

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.

Self interest is of course a very powerful force, yet it leaves out our deep and passionate desires to be part of a group, to lose ourselves in something larger than ourselves.

In addition, the debate is conditioned by more powerful vested - interest groups.

The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

While AB 934 was once an honest attempt to support effective teachers and prioritize quality in California's education system, the bill is now the product of backroom deals in the state capital with the state's most powerful special interest groups.

A powerful coalition of rights groups, business interests, teachers and magnet school parents prevailed over conservatives who would have allowed schools in Wake County to become resegregated.

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.»

One of the most powerful factors that sustain the idea that «I am a member of a group, identified by common interests, and those who are not part of my group are somewhat, if not fundamentally, inferior, or in some other way, opposed to me.»

In an interesting aside, the various agencies and even private businesses who have taken it upon themselves to voice their opinions to congressional groups involved in this investigation seem to be bookseller associations and ebook platforms from across the country who are urging their elected officials to not make any decisions that would result in making Amazon even more powerful than it already iIn an interesting aside, the various agencies and even private businesses who have taken it upon themselves to voice their opinions to congressional groups involved in this investigation seem to be bookseller associations and ebook platforms from across the country who are urging their elected officials to not make any decisions that would result in making Amazon even more powerful than it already iin this investigation seem to be bookseller associations and ebook platforms from across the country who are urging their elected officials to not make any decisions that would result in making Amazon even more powerful than it already iin making Amazon even more powerful than it already is.

Conteh explores the fact that people posses their power solely within the actions of a group, saying about the piece, «Africans who act solely on the behalf of the interests and concerns of African people are Africans in their most powerful form, bar none.»

«I thought that if we could work together with good, interesting groups in the city, and pulled together our resources to make a larger movement in the city, we could do something very powerful here,» says Carvajal.

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

However, one must remember that CAGW has become a multi-billion dollar big business, with many powerful interest groups already benefiting or hoping to do so in one way or another from it.

Don't let the AGA fool you: despite its handwringing over sensible (and flexible, as written in Section 433) targets, the organization is no «Mom and Pop» suffering from overregulation: the simple fact is that the AGA is one of the largest, most powerful special interest groups in the United States, with many lobbyists on its payroll.

Powerful liberal groups have been calling for more ambitious limits to emissions, while more conservative interests argue against the drastic measures already required in the Kyoto Protocol.

The interrelation and interaction of the many powerful and separate interest groups is shown on this diagram and described by Tony Newbery in this article entitled «A Very Convenient Network?»

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