Sentences with phrase «top lobbying organization»

Mark Jewell, president of the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), the top lobbying organization for North Carolina teachers, said lawmakers» invitation to ditch the salary schedule would be «short - sighted,» adding it may «jeopardize teacher retention and recruiting.»

As usual, the top lobbying organizations included health care, telecommunications and education, while relative newcomer Uber Technologies continued to flex its muscle in New York.

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A political organization funded by a top hotel - trades union has helped develop the Share Better campaign — a multifaceted lobbying effort to persuade New York City politicians to curtail Airbnb, according to emails and records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

New York's largest agricultural lobbying organization has a number of priority issues, and it outlined the top three on a conference call with reporters this morning.

Duffy, the former mayor of Rochester, has been rumored to be interested in the top post at the Rochester Business Alliance, a lobbying organization.

The trial lawyers, who had a close relationship with former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, employ their own small army of top lobbying firms and spent a combined $ 687,700 on campaign contributions in 2015, making their organization, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the second largest donor in the state.

A political organization funded by a top hotel - trades union has helped develop a multifaceted lobbying effort to persuade New York City politicians to curtail Airbnb, according to emails and records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The top five student - loan corporations devoted a combined total of $ 60 million to political spending over the past three election cycles, including $ 49 million on lobbying, according to a recent report by a watchdog organization.

Here there is fault in our unions and our professional associations, which for too long have served as top - heavy lobbying organizations.

Although the three organizations are funded primarily from local taxpayer funds and are supposed to be advocating for local public schools, all three have spent the last three years lobbying for Governor Malloy's restrictive, centralized and top - down Corporate Education Reform Industry agenda... An agenda that undermines local control of education, seeks to limit the rights of parents, denigrates teachers and turns Connecticut's public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories.

In order to lobby the Legislature to pass a «Race to the Top» bill that includes charter schools we have created a new organization called Kids First Washington.