Sentences with phrase «school campaign contributions»

The Senate GOP is going to pay dearly for its war on public schools and public school teachers and its love affair with charter schools and charter school campaign contributions.

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Maddy was proud of her contributions, and to ensure continuity after she graduated, Maddy co-founded a school club where students could hang out, learn about ways to reduce stress, and get involved in CS projects, including a sleep campaign.

The school raised twice as much as the other schools in Township High School District 214's United Way Contribution Camschool raised twice as much as the other schools in Township High School District 214's United Way Contribution CamSchool District 214's United Way Contribution Campaign.

In lieu of flowers, Masses or memorial contributions may be given to St. James Church, Beyond 2000 Campaign, 820 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Arlington Heights, IL 60004 or to St. Viator High School Foundation, Office of Development, 1213 E. Oakton St., Arlington Heights, IL 60004.

Safe Kids and FedEx launched the America's Favorite Crossing Guard campaign to raise awareness about the tremendous contribution that crossing guards make to protect kids in school zones.

In return the charter schools have showered millions of dollars of campaign contributions on these senators.

The Senate GOP showed nothing but distain and disgust for public schools and teachers during its long love affair with the charters and their campaign contributions.

Staten Island Assemblywoman and GOP NYC mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis said she returned campaign contributions from Palestinian - American activist Linda Sarsour, and condemned CUNY's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy for inviting the Women's March organizer to speak at its commencement next month.

The case stems from the contribution from the New Yorkers for a Brighter Future to the Fund for Great Public Schools, the latter of which has been heavily involved in state legislative campaigns on behalf of Democratic candidates, primarily for the state Senate.

It is infatuated with charter schools because it needs contributions from the billionaire set to fund its campaigns.

It was announced today that Kerrey, the former president of the New School in New York City, had signed on to the effort to tighten campaign finance laws by introducing a voluntary public matching system similar to New York City and lower contribution limits.

During this and future campaigns, Hagelin favored abortion rights without public financing, campaign finance law reform, improved gun control, a flat tax, the eradication of PACs, a ban on soft money contributions, and school vouchers.

Donald Trump is crediting New York's never - ending corruption scandals for prodding the state's ethics agency to investigate his complaint that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hit up Trump's relatives and associates for campaign contributions while investigating his business school.

It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another year.

DiNapoli has influenced corporations to make greater disclosure of political campaign contributions, and he divested some stock in gun companies after the shootings at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut.

The Senate GOP, which is based mostly upstate and on LI is sticking its nose into NYC schools / charters because it needs the campaign contributions of the charter billionaires, not because it wants to help anyone.

Staten Island Assemblywoman and GOP mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis told the Observer last night that she returned campaign contributions from Palestinian - American activist Linda Sarsour — and condemned the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy for inviting the Women's March organizer to speak at its commencement next month.

Other expenses include a few thousand on school supplies, which he handed out in his district a few weeks ago, $ 14,000 in contributions to other political campaigns, and $ 3,243 to the State Board of Elections for violation fees (Espada has a history of failing to file his campaign disclosure reports.)

Mr. Cuomo, who has received large campaign contributions from entities tied to privately - run charter schools, has said he would agree to almost triple the state's education budget — from $ 377 million to $ 1.1 billion — if the state legislature agrees to his reforms.

Charter school groups and their supporters spent $ 16 million on lobbying, campaign contributions to state - level candidates and parties and independent expenditure campaigns last year.

Irwin's campaign disclosure form reads like a «who's who» of big union players, including max - out contributions from AFSCME, the California School Employees Association, the California State Council of Laborer's PAC, the California Teachers Association, Los Angeles County Firefighters Local 1014, SEIU United Long Term Care Workers Local 6434, Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California and the United Nurses Association

In a recent Daily News op - ed, Vance announced that the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at the Columbia University Law School will conduct an independent review of how he tackles campaign contributions and present recommendations in 90 days.

Hawkins said that Cuomo's hostility to public school teachers and their unions and his support for charter schools must be understood in light of his large campaign contributions from wealthy hedge fund managers who profit from the favorable tax treatment of investments in charter schools and who like the fact that most charters are non-union.

The North District race was a hotly contested one filled with big campaign contributions and contrasting educational ideologies from the two candidates on everything from charter schools to extending the school day to the use of standardized tests.

It seems that the Senate Republicans» enthusiasm for Bloomberg's control of the schools might have had something to do with the former mayor's contributions to their campaign coffers, which eventually totaled more than $ 3 million.

Campaign contributions have increased in recent Buffalo School Board elections, gradually rising with each election cycle from the $ 21,500 brought in during the 2007 races.

Their study, published online in Urban Affairs Review, is one of the first to examine non-local campaign contributions to school board elections.

And the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, a nonprofit citizens» group, has raised more than $ 200,000 in private contributions to finance its school - improvement campaign and is sponsoring a series of town forums to gauge citizen support.

They oppose the accountability provisions of No Child Left Behind, they everywhere resist the formation of charter schools (and let us not even speak of vouchers), and they can be relied upon to muster their vast electoral strength and whopping campaign contributions behind whichever candidates promise not to cause them any grief.

The Protect Our Public Schools campaign opposing the referendum has raised more than $ 600,000 in cash and $ 200,000 in in - kind contributions.

She said she won't accept any campaign contributions from state or national charter school organizations.

In the year that has followed, North Carolina has absorbed a flood of more than $ 90,000 in campaign contributions to lawmakers friendly to the school choice movement.

This means that the school choice movement's dollars comprised just shy of 25 percent of all of Brandon's 2012 campaign contributions.

Campaign Finance Reports are in for contributions and expenditures for the two candidates for Park City School Board District 5.

School Board President Monica Garcia's latest campaign finance statement includes some familiar names — including a $ 1,000 contribution from LAUSD Deputy Superintendent of Instruction Jaime Aquino, a top aide to Superintendent John Deasy.

A few weeks after the lawmaker returned from Florida, several received campaign contributions from the school voucher proponents.

Charters try to swing elections with stunning campaign contributions Charter schools are making enormous campaign contributions in Santa Clara County to win school board seats throughout the county.

Charter schools are making enormous campaign contributions in Santa Clara County to win school board seats throughout the county.

Pro-charter school contributions to the campaign of former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took another significant leap forward with the contribution of $ 1 million Wednesday by Richard Riordan, another former L.A. mayor.

Their contributions underscored the extent to which the race to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown, at least as far as campaign contributions go, is becoming a proxy war between competing sides on a range of issues affecting the growth and management of charter schools in the state.

Rep. Fresen is the subject of two active ethics complaints and his colleagues in the Florida House receive a bounty of campaign contributions every year from the for - profit charter school industry.

In a campaign where cash contributions have become especially hard to come by, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has offered up a $ 1 million donation on behalf of state Sen. Gloria Romero's bid to become state schools chief.

Three school board seat races generated $ 6.7 million in campaign contributions, much of it from charter school advocates and labor groups.

In exchange for their tax - exempt status, federal law bars 501 (c)(3) organizations from engaging in political activity, and some are calling on Schneiderman to investigate why Families for Excellent Schools made a multimillion - dollar contribution, now that the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance has acted.

Brandon was a recipient of a significant amount of campaign money from the school choice movement during his 2012 run for office — 25 percent of his campaign contributions came from pro-voucher investors.

The Washington State Supreme Court may be unaware of such results (or received teacher union contributions to their campaigns), but whatever the reason, the court's ruling threatened some 1,000 students» education at 8 charter schools (down from 11 prior to the ruling).

On the face of it, this Denver Post article by Yesenia Robles looks like pretty standard reporting of political campaign contributions for the currently hot Denver Public Schools board election.

But when it came to light that Luke Bronin was collecting campaign contributions from the charter school industry, Johnson and the HFT leadership sat down with him a second time to discuss his relationship and connection with charter school proponents.

According to Bronin's campaign finance reports, charter school proponents, including those associated with the disgraced FUSE / Jumoke Charter School charter chain and others who are connected with the New York - based charter school advocacy front group called Families for Excellent Schools have provided Bronin with campaign contribuschool proponents, including those associated with the disgraced FUSE / Jumoke Charter School charter chain and others who are connected with the New York - based charter school advocacy front group called Families for Excellent Schools have provided Bronin with campaign contribuSchool charter chain and others who are connected with the New York - based charter school advocacy front group called Families for Excellent Schools have provided Bronin with campaign contribuschool advocacy front group called Families for Excellent Schools have provided Bronin with campaign contributions.

Broad's long backing of charters, including campaign contributions to charter school supporters, attracted criticism from teachers unions.