Sentences with phrase «than any other organization lobbying»

Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), the charter school lobby group formed by the board members of Achievement First, Inc. has spent more than any other organization lobbying for Malloy's Education Reform bills.

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And the beauty of expanding school choice is that it generates its own advocates as families that benefit from these programs lobby to protect and expand their choices.We are almost at the point where ed reform organizations don't have to do very much other than to coordinate choice families pushing for more choices.

Readers will recall that A Better Connecticut, ConnCAN and other corporate education industry organizations have spent a record $ 6 million and counting lobbying in support of Malloy's education reform initiative to date, including more than $ 2 million in television advertisements thanking Malloy for his «leadership.»

The Center for Public Integrity found that ACCCE spent $ 4.7 million dollars lobbying in the first 6 months of 2008 - more than any other organization devoted solely to influencing climate change legislation, and more than 5x the amount spent by either of the leading wind or solar industry groups.

As for the influence on the next farm bill, Monsanto has done more lobbying on it than any other organization.