Category: lobbying
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City Council staffer accused of stoking tensions at protests over DOE’s plans to diversify NYC schools
I’ve seen this man at just about every SHSAT demonstration I’ve attended. He’s definitely one of its most prolific organizers. The man who’s been the loudest in the raucous movement to oust Richard Carranza is on the payroll of one of the school chancellor’s biggest critics — and more than willing to take one for…
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Foes of de Blasio’s high school integration plan spent close to $1M to quash it
The Education Equity Campaign, a pro-test coalition which launched in February to counter the mayor’s plan, hired top firms Tusk Strategies, Bolton St. Johns and Patrick B. Jenkins & Associates to the tune of $80,000 total in May and June, according to the recent bimonthly filings with th犀利士 e state’s ethics watchdog. Those contracts cost them $65,000,…
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Big Money Enters Debate Over Race and Admissions at Stuyvesant
Follow the money they typically say. Ronald S. Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir, and Richard D. Parsons, the former chairman of Citigroup, have for decades had their hands in New York City affairs. Mr. Lauder ran a failed bid for mayor and successfully led a campaign for term limits for local elected officials. Mr. Parsons…
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Billionaire joins push to stop de Blasio’s high school admissions test plan
Powerful specialized high school alumni have now promised to put MILLIONS into lobbying against replacing the embattled 114 multiple-choice exam as the sole admissions criteria for these schools. Cosmetics tycoon Ron Lauder is bankrolling a multimillion-dollar effort to stop Mayor Bill de Blasio from eliminating the admissions test to the city’s top high schools, sources told…
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Stuyvesant’s Admissions-Test Backers Hire Lobbyist
How your government actually works… Stanley Ng, one of the founders of the “Scholastic Merit Fund,” said Thursday it had raised $25,000 this fall and hopes to raise $100,000 by January to protect the 1971 law that mandates the admissions test for at least three of the eight specialized high schools. […] The fund hired…