Sentences with phrase «reform advocacy»

Furthermore, he is also the founder of 50 - CAN, a national education reform advocacy group.

A national non profit women's organization which promotes the equality rights of women through legal education, research and law reform advocacy.

One of the most striking developments in the entire campaign was the arrival of Michelle Rhee's national education reform advocacy organization, StudentsFirst, although here, in Connecticut, they've created a front - group called GNEPSA.

Tomorrow, the Sacramento - based school reform advocacy group Ed Voice will have a full - page ad (seen on the left, click to enlarge) in the LA Times calling on the state legislature and Governor Jerry Brown to oppose AB 5.

James C. Turner, executive director of HALT, a national legal reform advocacy group in Washington, DC points out: One of the most frequent complaints his organization gets is that...

I'll be sharing some thoughts on effective school food reform advocacy, and... [Continue reading]

Horner says he was thoroughly vetted for the job, which he left after about a year; he's since gone back to reform advocacy work.

Kristina Sesek is responsible for legal reform advocacy efforts in Washington, D.C..

CCLA is a national, non-profit organization that fights for the rights and freedoms of people in Canada through law reform advocacy on systemic issues.

Addressing these criticisms, the Equal Vote Coalition, a voting reform advocacy group, proposes a variant of range voting with an extra second round featuring the two top rated candidates in which the candidate with the majority of preference wins.

«This is a once - in - a-generation opportunity,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform advocacy group that favors a convention.

Diane Russell, a Portland state representative who had promoted ranked choice across the country for Fair Vote, the national election reform advocacy group, helped convince officials in her home city to embrace it for mayoral elections in 2010, and began pushing for it at the State House.

Tax reform advocacy groups from around the state gathered on May 22 to remind the Governor that he pledged to create a tax reform commission in his State of the State address earlier this year.

The electoral reform advocacy group FairVote has more information on them here.

In a few minutes the baton will be passed to Michelle Rhee, as she announces her new reform advocacy organization.

The report was commissioned by the education reform advocacy publication Education Post.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — February 24, 2009: In the current economic climate it is more important than ever for Congress to enact meaningful reforms to the U.S. patent law, says the Coalition for Patent Fairness (CPF), a leading innovation, competitiveness and patent reform advocacy organization.

The service agreements in place between affected organisations and the Commonwealth will include a requirement that CLCs will not engage in law reform advocacy using Commonwealth funds.

Read below for the full statement from Rhee, who is now head of the Sacramento - based StudentsFirst school reform advocacy organization.

I'll be sharing some thoughts on effective school food reform advocacy, and I'll be joined by Mike Schade of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, among other speakers.

Horner said he was thoroughly vetted for the job, which he left after about a year; he's since gone back to reform advocacy work.

Nathan Morris directs legal reform advocacy efforts in Washington, D.C., and in state capitols throughout the country.

Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland organized the March for Our Lives in DC, on March 24 with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

After spending record amounts of money lobbying for Governor Dannel Malloy's Corporate Education Reform Industry Initiatives, Connecticut's corporate funded education reform advocacy groups continue to spend millions of dollars misleading parents and policy makers, denigrating teachers and the teaching profession and promoting the discriminatory, inappropriate and unfair Common Core and Common Core Testing Scheme.

03/26/2010: LULAC and many other education reform advocacy organizations submitted ESEA priorities and recommendations to the House Education and Labor subcommittee in response to Congress» attempt to reauthorize NCLB in 2010.

«What I find hypocritical is it's always about student and teacher accountability, but never about resource accountability,» said Tom Beebe, executive director of the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools, a school funding reform advocacy group.

Survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Albany, New York — StudentsFirstNY, a statewide education reform advocacy organization, today was joined by public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity Agenda.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

Last year, those hearings proved uncomfortable for Senate Republicans too, when they seemed to find themselves unable to criticize specific aspects of de Blasio's education agenda, despite the assistance of powerful education reform advocacy groups in New York City.

I got a job working in communications for a school choice and education reform advocacy group in New Jersey.

Stand leveraged its resources and activities through a partnership with Advance Illinois, a statewide 501 (c)(3) K — 12 education - reform advocacy organization.

A legal - reform advocacy group that contends numerous laws, court rulings, and regulations hamper schools in their job of educating students has launched a Web site to help dramatize its arguments.

WINNER: Ed - reform advocacy organizations, especially TNTP.

DFER «didn't create a broad movement among Democratic lawmakers around revamping how schools work,» said former Michigan lawmaker Tim Melton, who moved over to work for StudentsFirst, a school reform advocacy group that recently merged with 50CAN.

In 2012, Patrick McGuinn wrote about DFER and other education reform advocacy organizations (ERAOs) for Ed Next.

«Poor kids almost always get a lesser education, and a test won't solve the problem,» said Monty Neill, executive director of FairTest, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, testing - reform advocacy group.

The conversation focused on twin new studies penned by two authors, my AEI colleague Andrew Kelly and Drew University Professor Pat McGuinn, examining parent power and reform advocacy.