Sentences with phrase «lobby education day»

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Since 2009, the league, to its credit, has also been lobbying hard in favor of laws - now in place in 31 states and the District of Columbia, and with more sure to follow this year - requiring concussion education of parents and athletes, banning same - day return - to - play after a suspected concussion, and requiring medical clearance before a concussed athlete is allowed back on the playing field, diamond or ice.

He greeted all the other patrons at the bar, mostly teachers and education advocates in town for a lobby day the following day at the Capitol.

Plans include a private lobby outfitted with a marketing wall that will be visible to all who enter or pass by, which will display programs, events and stories about those consumers that are assisted and cared for every day; new classrooms; a gym for pre-K and early intervention students; training rooms; breakout, community and education space; new offices and workstations; adaptive technology training program space; a doctor - staffed Low Vision Center; a new boardroom; private conference rooms for interviews and agency work; and displays telling the story of HKS» past and its vision for the future.

Also at noon, hundreds of students, faculty and staff from CUNY and SUNY will be in Albany for a statewide Higher Education Action Day of citizen lobbying and activism, outside concourse meetings rooms 2, 3 and 4, Empire State Plaza, Albany.

At 11 a.m., United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew hosts UFT Lobby Day lunch for hundreds of teachers and parents from New York City who will meet with the local members of the Legislature to lobby for more education funding and other issues.

To accompany their lobby day, which is expected to draw some 500 parents and students to Albany, the Alliance for Quality Education has released a hard - hitting video that casts the school funding disparity in starkly racial terms.

Expect more heated education rhetoric at the Capitol on Tuesday, when advocates for pre-K, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, are scheduled to lobby lawmakers the same day representative of charter schools make their case.

The board unanimously decided at its May meeting to delay action on the state education department's proposal, after receiving testimony from more than 100 individuals and representatives of statewide education lobbies during a two - day public hearing last month.

Over the first 120 days of the 2012 Legislative Session, corporate lobby groups spent over $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill.

I went to Washington D.C. twice to lobby four Congressional offices each time with Citizens» Climate Lobby (CCL) at their June International lobby day conference and their November Lobby Education Dday conference and their November Lobby Education DayDay.

• Post the Colorado early learning and development guideline videos to your social media channels earlylearningco.org • Raise awareness of child safety issues and helpful childproofing information • Organize a moms» or dads» night out • Put children's books in your lobby and waiting areas • Schedule family events at different times of the day and on different days of the week so that more families can participate • Add information about family - friendly resources on neighborhood websites like Nextdoor • Remind people it's okay to ask for help • Host a play group at a local recreation or community center • Collaborate with childcare centers and schools by joining PTOs, volunteering in classrooms, participating in fundraising and more • Recognize a child or family in distress and offer assistance • Provide parenting education classes for parents and for students before they become parents • Connect parents to one another and to important resources for support

Proposals from the Governor Brown's office to expand prenatal - to - age 3 home visiting programs, Early Intervention / Early Childhood Special Education, Employment Related Day Care, and preschool opportunities through additional state funds are actively being lobbied for at the legislature for the next biennium.