Some parents have been lobbying relentlessly for the budget, while others remain convinced that the district hasn't cut enough fat from its spending.

Some parents are lobbying for artificial-turf fields, and one of the fund-raising groups suggested cooperation with Pepsi or Coke.

That also means students have been clamoring for more music classes, and parents lobbying for more funding.

Outraged parents of the victims unsuccessfully lobbied Prime Minister Shimon Peres to fire Peretz.

Her parents lobbied hard for a new trial, which was granted last August.

The parents desperately lobby the cautious and slow-moving Federal Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health to approve experimental gene therapy, but when the treatment comes it does little.

Nearly seventy pupils and parents from Slapton School near Aylesbury lobbied councillors before a meeting of Buckinghamshire Education Committee.

In Chappaqua, Byram Hills and Somers, parents lobbied school board members, circulated petitions and raised funds.

After suburban parents lobbied parent-teacher organizations, the State Legislature voted to scrap the graduation test before a single student had taken it.

Seefeldt urges parents to take the initiative and lobby their school districts and local teams to institute modified rules for children.