Sentences with phrase «advocacy group called»

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Well, a conservative advocacy group called Citizens United wanted to change all that.

The issue arose during a Sept. 26 meeting when representatives from an advocacy group called The Puppy Mill Project told trustees about a new business in Mundelein that could be connected to puppy mills, according to village documents.

In April, an animal advocacy group called «Animals Australia» released footage of conditions that resulted in 2,400 sheep deaths aboard an export ship last August.

The public school advocacy group called We Raise NJ just released a the results of a recent poll exploring NJ residents» views on current course content standards, aligned tests, and school quality.

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.

New Profit, Inc.'s «investments» include major donations to underwrite the faux teacher advocacy group called Educators 4 Excellence, which is actually another New York based, anti-union front group.

Bloomberg's long - time chief adviser is now in charge of political strategy for the charter advocacy group called Families for Excellent Schools, the entity that is paying for the pro-charter school television ads that have been running in Connecticut and the group that organized the recent pro-charter school rally at the State Capital in Hartford... the one in which charter schools students and parents were bused in from as far away as New York and Boston.

«The way districts handle professional development with teachers — to me it's a crime,» said Rayne Martin, a former state official who authored Louisiana's Race to the Top application and now heads the local branch of a national advocacy group called Stand for Children.

An advocacy group called EdVoice, which gets support from Los Angeles billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad, backed the students and parents who sued the district.

A recent shooting at a high school near Portland, Ore., marked the 74thschool shooting since a gunmen killed 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, according to an advocacy group called...

That question gets at the heart of what kind of legacy will be left in D.C. for Rhee, who resigned shortly after Mayor Vince Gray defeated Adrian Fenty in 2010 and went on to form a well - funded advocacy group called Students First.

It all started last fall, when an advocacy group called the Public Library of Science distributed an electronic open letter urging scientific publishers to hand over all research articles from their journals to public online archives for free within six months of publication.

The Wall Street bust anecdote came after Bratton was asked about marijuana policy by a member of a marijuana advocacy group called «Occupy Weed Street.»

A marijuana advocacy group called Occupy Weed Street recently launched a «420 Fight Club» to combine pot smoking with free martial arts lessons.

John Raskin, executive director of a straphanger advocacy group called the Rider's Alliance, said the onus is on Cuomo.

A new advocacy group called Blind Justice is launching a national advertising campaign calling for prosecutor accountability and the importance of conviction integrity.

Julia Bauscher, who is president of a national advocacy group called the School Nutrition Association, says administrators are under intense pressure to increase instruction time and boost standardized test scores.

It will improve wildlife habitats, help control flooding, improve streamwater quality, avoid added congestion and protect property values, said Kaaren Oldfield, a Glen Ellyn marketing and media consultant who headed an ad hoc advocacy group called Neighbors for Open Space, which supported the proposal.

With seismic testing tied to the oil and gas sector continuing in the Atlantic, an advocacy group called on Washington to make good on clean - energy pledges.

Before taking the grand leap into the business world, Hirshberg had worked for an ecological advocacy group called the New Alchemy Institute.

Consumer advocacy groups call on regulators to police this new industry of predictive scoring.

Advocacy groups called for a national moratorium on self - driving tests.

The governor is also backing a coalition of advocacy groups called New Yorkers United for Marriage in an effort to push the issue.

A new report by a Harlem - based parent advocacy group calls on New York City charter schools to reduce their long waiting lists by «backfilling,» or admitting new students whenever current ones leave.

Today, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association joins a coalition of community and advocacy groups calling for action on Justice Tulloch's police oversight recommendations.

Not exact matches

Zuckerberg's advocacy group FWD.us released a statement Wednesday calling Trump's proposal that the U.S. deport 11 million illegal immigrants «absurd.»

In less than 24 hours, the advocacy group Equality Florida has raised more than $ 2 million for the victims of the Orlando shooting at a gay night club called Pulse that left 50 dead and more than 50 injured over the weekend.

Rather, it cited something called the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, which it describes as «an advocacy group focusing on the restaurant industry.»

Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen called the coupons «a false solution that can be summed up as too little, too late.»

Even with hedge funds vanishing from the agenda, debt relief advocacy group Jubilee South called on the G - 8 governments to protect poorer countries from vulture funds, or investors who buy up debt at rock - bottom prices and then sue for the full value.

A few months before the IRS announcement, Frank Schuler had formed the rival advocacy group Keller had contemplated, calling it the Partnership for Conservation («permanently conserving important lands in the U.S.»).

Mike Toohey, president of the Waterways Council Inc, an inland waterways infrastructure advocacy group, said he was pleased to see the president addressing what he called the «silent r» of the transportation system — rivers.

Among the most vocal opponents of the new fee is the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, which called it a «backdoor border adjustment tax.»»

«We can not overemphasize how essential stock - based compensation is to a startup's ability to recruit and retain talent,» they wrote in a missive, organized by one of their Washington, D.C. - focused advocacy groups, called Engine.

A Christian advocacy group has called for the murderers of a Pakistani Christian politician to be brought... More

A Christian advocacy group has called for the murderers of a Pakistani Christian politician to be brought to justice, more than four years after his death.

However, the director of an advocacy group for victims of sexual abuse by priests called the steps announced by O'Malley insufficient and irresponsible, saying only one of the named priests was new to public information.

The movement is called Lazarus Sunday and is spearheaded by ONE, an advocacy and campaigning group co-founded by Bono that fights against extreme poverty and HIV / AIDS in Africa.

«There are a number of Democratic members of Congress who are calling themselves pro-life, but it's hard to do that after voting for healthcare, which was the largest expansion of abortion we've seen,» says Tom Minnery, senior vice president of CitizenLink, a conservative advocacy group connected to Focus on the Family that is also spending money this cycle.

According to a charity called Christians from Pakistan, its UK legal advocacy group, CLAAS, will challenge the decision.

Regarding Zhang's case, Christian Solidarity Worldwide's chief executive Mervyn Thomas said his advocacy group welcomed the release and restated its call to «allow Zhang his freedom without condition, upholding his right to freedom of movement and association, and all the rights and freedoms guaranteed under international and Chinese law.»

A Muslim advocacy group launched a website Tuesday aimed at tracking what it calls anti-Muslim rhetoric, particularly among elected officials, two days before a congressional hearing that focuses on the American Muslim community.

Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has today launched a campaign calling on Kellogg's and six other food manufacturers to roll out the front of pack health star rating on their products.

Our hope is to have the U.S. government, in partnership with the many stakeholders in the food system, including producers, manufacturers, retailers, non-profits and food advocacy groups, faith organizations as well as leaders from state, tribal, and local government, join in using the Call to Action as an opportunity to further individual and collective actions on preventing food waste.

Spurred on by a successful revolt against artificial food dyes in the United Kingdom, a prominent U.S. food safety advocacy group Tuesday called on federal regulators to ban several colorings, claiming they're linked to hyperactivity in children.

Michelle Hickman: Well, you know, I was pretty amped up, and I reached out to several breastfeeding advocacy groups, hoping that somebody would tell me what I'm supposed to do and how to do it; and just to have support from them - and Best for Babes» Tina Forbes ended up calling me back.

Back in April, the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen wagged its finger at hospitals for being complicit in unethical marketing of the formula products, and so called for healthcare facilities to «immediately discontinue the distribution of commercial infant formula manufacturer discharge bags.»

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