Sentences with phrase «ceo of the advocacy group»

Brian Wynne, the president and CEO of the advocacy group the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, said the FAA has so far analyzed and approved over 5,500 exemptions to use drones for 42 different types of drone operations.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, Craig Aaron, president and CEO of the net neutrality advocacy group Free Press also voiced dissatisfaction with the ruling, saying it allows phone and cable companies to «block and discriminate» against their customers» communications.

«This is not the deal that we have wanted to see,» says John Arensmeyer, CEO of Small Business Majority, an advocacy group.

Breadwinners: «If anyone in your life depends on you financially, you need life insurance,» said Marvin Feldman, CEO of consumer advocacy group LifeHappens.org.

Life - sized cutouts depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wearing «Fix Fakebook» T - shirts are displayed by advocacy group, Avaaz, on the South East Lawn of the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10, 2018, ahead of Zuckerberg's appearance before a Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees joint hearing.

In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, it is in our interest to farm responsibly with the best science available,» said John De Luca, president and CEO of the Wine Institute, a public policy advocacy group, representing more than 600 California wineries.

Consumers will appreciate our efforts in being responsible stewards of the land and good neighbors, while maintaining the long - term viability of businesses that contribute significantly to the state's economy,» said Robert P. Koch, president and CEO of Wine Institute, the public policy advocacy group for nearly 800 California wineries and affiliated businesses.

And there is one more factor families should consider, says Darell Hammond, the CEO of play advocacy group KaBoom!.

The recently passed state budget, hailed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as «the best plan the state has produced,» was «woefully short» of fulfilling the promises made to the HIV / AIDS community, according to Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group.

The announcement, a rally of sorts, included Charles King, the CEO of Housing Works who is also the member of ACT UP New York, an - anti-AIDS advocacy group.

The recently passed state budget, hailed by Cuomo as «the best plan the state has produced,» was «woefully short» of fulfilling the promises made to the HIV / AIDS community, according to Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group.

«This is just huge,» Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group, said of de Blasio's planned announcement.

James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center whose group is considered more moderate than advocacy groups that focus exclusively on large charter networks, praised the collaboration.

«If healthy food is either economically unaffordable or physically unavailable, that increases hunger and harms community nutrition,» said Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America, a nationwide advocacy group.

«We are in an era where the primary issues are not federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research,» wrote CAMR President Amy Comstock Rick, who is also CEO of the Parkinson's Action Network, in an e-mail to the more than 100 patient advocacy, scientific, and other groups that belong to CAMR.

But the head of another biomedical research advocacy group, Research!America CEO Mary Woolley, said although her group, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is «pleased» by what it calls «a starting point,» her group feels the new initiatives at NIH «should supplement, not supplant, the imperative of making up for a decade's worth of lost ground.»

«ViaCyte has a history of working with patient advocacy groups, such as JDRF and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and Beyond Type 1 represents a new and exciting platform to help connect patients to product development,» said Paul Laikind, PhD, President and CEO of ViaCyte.

Although Malloy's proposal to end tenure failed, we are now learning that the CEO of ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group, is working to file a lawsuit to end teacher tenure in Connecticut.

Malloy implemented an extremely prejudicial evaluation system for teachers, brought in Common Core and its associated testing (SBAC), crushed the OPT OUT movement, reduced funding for public schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership in CT..

«Data has the potential to transform education from a model of mass production to a personalized experience that meets the needs of individuals and ensures that no student is lost along the way,» said Aimee Rogstad Guidera, president and CEO of the Data Quality Campaign, a data advocacy group in D.C. that's been working to help provide best practices for states.

«It's a remarkable thing she's proposing,» said Ross Danis, CEO of Newark Trust for Education, an advocacy group.

A Better Connecticut, the charter school advocacy group formed by the present and previous CEOs of ConnCAN, the charter school lobby group, has spent $ 50,708 so far in support of the endorsed slate of candidates for the Bridgeport Board of Education.

In today's Connecticut Post story about the Appropriations Committee plan to remove the funding for the new charter schools, the CEO of the Charter School advocacy group ConnCAN had already issued a statement attacking the legislature saying,

Jennifer Alexander, the CEO of the charter school advocacy group called the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN) issued the following statement after the court ruling.

Donors to Colorado's Democrats for Education Reform Political Committee include contributions from Enron Billionaire - turned charter school and education reform financier Texan John Arnold and his wife, along with Connecticut's Alex Johnston, the former CEO of Jonathan Sackler's ConnCAN charter school advocacy group.

As I sat at the meeting of the education committee of the Connecticut General Assembly in early spring and heard the CEO of the charter school advocacy group, ConnCAN, say that Connecticut needed more seats in charter schools in order to save students from «being trapped in failing schools», I had questions.

«Nevada has become the bellwether for what [universal voucher] programs should look like around the country,» said Robert Enlow, the CEO of EdChoice, a pro-voucher advocacy group.

«A lot of publishers and companies view it as an economic imperative for survival to say they're aligned to Common Core,» says Theodor Rebarber, founder and CEO of AccountabilityWorks, a Maryland - based advocacy group, and author of a 2012 study that estimated implementation nationally could cost as much as $ 15.8 billion.

Sackler also created 50 CAN, a national charter school advocacy group and Sackler was a major financial backer and advocate for Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company formed by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's former commissioner of and his associate, Dacia Toll, who now serves as the CEO of Achievement First, Inc..

Before him, Alex Johnston, the former CEO of ConnCAN, a pro-charter advocacy group that has worked closely with AF, served on the Board under Harp (Pelto, 2015).

It all depends on the importance you place upon getting the maximum value out of your points, says Patrick Sojka, CEO of the consumer advocacy group Rewards Canada.

Just then, Bob Lynch, CEO of the Washington advocacy group Americans for the Arts, sidled up with colleagues Nora Halpern and Kate Gibney.

President candidate Donald Trump responded to ten questions submitted by the free - market energy advocacy group, American Energy Alliance (the advocacy arm of the Institute for Energy Research, of which I am founder and CEO).

Plaintiff director of a gay - rights advocacy group has not stated a defamation claim against defendant, the president and CEO of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays Inc. (PFOX), by alleging defendant stated that plaintiff asked for people to «run over» defendant...

In a letter sent to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood has requested that Facebook discontinue Messenger Kids, which targets children under the age of 13.

The app was the recent subject of a letter sent to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood.

Augustus is founder and CEO of CallHub, a California - based startup bridging the communication gap for political campaigns and advocacy groups.

President and CEO of Mid-South powerhouse brokerage Crye - Leike, Harold Crye also heads one of the industry's most influential networking and advocacy groups — The Realty Alliance.