Sentences with phrase «associations than faith»

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The Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, representing 302 faith - based missions providing emergency services to disadvantaged groups, surveyed 20,000 homeless people and reported in November 2002 that more than 60 percent of those surveyed said they had more trouble finding work than they had six months prior.

Aligned against the «secularize or be shut out» approach is a growing coalition that now numbers more than seventy organizations including the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), the Council for American Private Education (CAPE), the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Christian Coalition, the Association of Christian Schools International, the American Association of Christian Schools, and Agudath Israel of America, which represents the Orthodox Jewish community.

But through the support of the NEA's Public Engagement Project, the Columbus Education Association convened a community conversation attended by more than 300 people — parents, business leaders, teachers, district administrators, and local faith - based and political leaders.

Sen. Gloria Romero, who sponsored the parent - trigger law and ran for state schools chief four years ago, said that while she disapproves of Torlakson's allegiance to the California Teachers Association, she has more faith in him at this point than the untested Tuck.

Suzanne O'Farrell, an assessment specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders, said schools had made appeals in good faith, based on Ofqual's rules that examiners should review marking procedures rather than detailed re-marking.

Persuasion «starts with the tenets of faith» more than with scientific data, said the Rev. Leith Anderson, president of the United States - based National Association of Evangelicals, noting that most of the world's population has some religious affiliation.