Sentences with phrase «advocacy organization headed»
In March 2001, MoveOn joined forces with the nonprofit advocacy site Generation Net, an online advocacy organization headed by Peter Schurman.
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On Wednesday, during the strategy session, the governor will meet with Christine C. Quinn, the speaker of the City Council, who is openly gay; Brian Ellner, who is pushing for same - sex marriage in New York for the Human Rights Campaign, a national advocacy group; Ross D. Levi, the head of the state's leading gay rights organization, the Empire State Pride Agenda; and Richard Socarides, a former Clinton administration official and president of Equality Matters, a new advocacy group.
While not mentioning the tax - exempt organization by name, DeLeo directed criticism toward the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, an advocacy group headed by Republican State Committee member Rick Green.
«It would be hard to imagine a worse vehicle for delivering calcium to the human body,» says Neal Barnard, head of the Washington, D.C. - based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes vegetarianism and is opposed to milk consumption.
Strange Bedfellows Dillon calls it a «strange - bedfellows twist,» and his story describes how Michelle Rhee, former D.C. superintendent, has hired George Parker, former head of the district's teachers union, as a part time senior fellow at her new advocacy organization Students First.
The leaders of the NHSA, an advocacy organization based in Alexandria, Va., sent a letter last month to Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael O. Leavitt saying that Head Start centers have already made such cuts after several...
Evidence offered: «A 2009 report from America's Promise Alliance, a national advocacy and research organization headed by retired General Colin Powell, showed IPS had the lowest graduation rate among central city school districts in the nation's largest 50 cities.»
Michelle Rhee has announced that she will step down as head of StudentsFirst, the Sacramento - based national advocacy organization she founded four years ago after resigning as chancellor of the District of Columbia school district.
As the head of the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization, I believe that calling for Latino families to opt out of annual assessments that provide important information about our students» educational progress is at best unfair and at worst disgraceful.
As head of the Washington, D.C. office for over a decade, she directed the organization's federal advocacy around issues involving voting rights, education, employment discrimination, fair housing, and criminal justice.
Members include the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the state Department of Early Education and Care, the state Department of Public Health, and Head Start; specialists within these agencies that represent special education, early childhood mental health, assessment, literacy, and dual - language learners; and Strategies for Children, a state advocacy organization.
You nailed it right on the head when you called me an advocate, for that is what my mentality drives me toward... advocacy on behalf of deserving individuals / organizations as I see their worth to be.