Sentences with phrase «based coalition of groups»

The national testing proposal «fails to provide safeguards against the invalid and inappropriate use of test results,» the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a Washington - based coalition of groups, including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said in Sept. 4 letter to Mr. Clinton.

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As executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, a Los Angeles - based lobby group for the porn business, Duke, who previously worked for Planned Parenthood, leads many of the industry's anti-piracy efforts.

Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

Other perspectives have been available: a veritable host of historians — Paul Kleppner, Robert Swierenga, Richard Jensen, and Ronald Formisano, to name only a few — have demonstrated that American political parties have always been coalitions of «ethnocultural» or «ethnoreligious» groups rather than economic or class - based alliances.

Wilson hopes that such race - neutral proposals might become the basis for a new political coalition of groups pressing for economic and social reform.

A growing coalition of conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex education, school - based health centers, guidance programs in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a social and a health perspective.

How2Recycle is a project of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition ®, a membership - based group that brings together business, educational institutions, and government agencies to collectively broaden the understanding of packaging sustainability and develop meaningful improvements for packaging solutions.

South - East Based Coalition of Human Rights Organisations, SBCHROs, has called on the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, the umbrella body of lawyers in Nigeria and other rights groups in the country, to direct their members to boycott courts in Nigeria in protest over President Muhammadu Buhari's disobedience to orders of courts in the country.

ELDR Group leader Graham Watson MEP denounced the grand coalition in 2007 and expressed a desire to ensure that the posts of Commission President, Council President, Parliament President and High Representative were not divided based on agreement between the two largest groups to the exclusion of third parties.

A gathering of pro-democracy and civil rights groups in the five states of the South - East geopolitical zone under the auspices of Southeast Based Coalition of Human...

There are wider problems with basing economic development on tourism, said Sam Magavern, co-director of the Partnership for the Public Good, a coalition of 178 community groups based in the Buffalo metropolitan area.

The activists, including members of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, the Working Families Party and the Hempstead - based group, the Corridor Counts, staged rallies at Nassau Republican Committee headquarters in Westbury and at Sen. Kemp Hannon's Garden City office.

A coalition of UK - based Tibet groups has written to the prime minister to outline the rapidly worsening human rights situation in Tibet.

The group, along with CitizenLink and its coalition of state - based family policy councils, questioned Trump's stances on issues such as abortion and same - sex marriage (which tended in the past to be liberal) as well his gambling and casino interests.

But at a press conference organized by a political pressure group, Coalition of Democratic Governance (CDG) in Accra yesterday, Mr Motrye, a Ghanaian US based GPS Expert, said, the GPS project was launched by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1973 for use by the United States military originally Navstar GPS.

The task force is a Syracuse - based coalition of community groups and individuals who have pushed developers seeking tax exemptions in the city to commit to training and hiring underprivileged city residents.

The evening protest outside the Koch estate was organized by a coalition of liberal groups, including MoveOn.org, the Occupy movement and the Long Island Progressive Coalition, a Massapequa - based ncoalition of liberal groups, including MoveOn.org, the Occupy movement and the Long Island Progressive Coalition, a Massapequa - based nCoalition, a Massapequa - based nonprofit.

Several hours earlier, a coalition of left - leaning and labor - backed groups unveiled a five - point plan that included hiking some taxes to increase spending, while providing income - based property tax relief.

The parties contesting the election were the incumbent People's National Movement, the official opposition United National Congress — Alliance (a coalition of the UNC and six smaller parties), the Congress of the People (a UNC splinter group), the Tobago United Front — Democratic Action Congress (a Tobago - based party) and the Democratic National Assembly (a new party based in Tobago).

A coalition of U.S. and Mexican conservation groups, Raise the River, is raising money to purchase and lease the additional water rights required to ensure base flow in the future.

Out of that exercise, in January 2017 the Coalition moved from a Working Group model to a project - based model, in order to increase flexibility, efficiency, and impact.

«If there was ever a national cancer - research emergency, this is it,» says Robert Comis, president of the Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Eleven prisoners died of cancer from 2010 through 2013, and six others have been diagnosed with cancer at the State Correctional Institution Fayette, said the report, released by the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Pittsburgh, and the Human Rights Coalition, a national prison reform group.

A broad - based coalition of neighborhood activists, social justice and food advocacy groups, top chefs, writers, farmers, fishermen, ranchers, civic leaders and state agencies is revamping the way food is grown, distributed and disposed.

Last week, a coalition of biomedical research advocacy groups and a Washington, D.C. — based think tank released a report outlining a number of strategies for sustaining the more than $ 30 billion budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which provides about one - half of all U.S. funding for basic research.

«I'm disappointed,» says Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a Washington, D.C. — based group which represents academic libraries.

United for Medical Research (UMR), a politically potent coalition of leading research universities, industry groups, and patient advocates based in Washington, D.C., isn't happy with Trump's proposed 20 % cut to the $ 32 billion NIH, the nation's major funder of basic biomedical science.

In addition, she is co-chair of the steering committee of Consumers United for Evidence - Based Healthcare, a nationwide coalition of consumer groups associated with the international Cochrane Collaboration and serves as a consumer peer reviewer for Cochrane evidence - based protocols and revBased Healthcare, a nationwide coalition of consumer groups associated with the international Cochrane Collaboration and serves as a consumer peer reviewer for Cochrane evidence - based protocols and revbased protocols and reviews.

The solution, the report concludes, can only be in the formation of new, more broad - based, inclusive coalitions and communities that take account of the diversity of civil society and the strengths of different parts of civil society, such as CSOs, community groups, online activists, the new protest movements, faith - based groups and trade unions.

The study was produced by the End Child Poverty Coalition, a group of 12 charities in the U.K., and the National Children's Bureau, a London - based advocacy group for child welfare.

As part of an effort to promote the inclusion of financial education in state standards and required courses, the Washington - based nonprofit group Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and Citi, a global financial - services company, have mapped whether students are required to study financial education.

California Business for Education, a coalition of business groups that pushes for improving the state's schools, on Jan. 18 launched a new Web - based tool for state legislators that provides data on the performance and demographics of schools in all 120 Assembly and Senate districts.

The «Parent Empowerment» legislation is being pushed in 20 states by the Los Angeles - based «Parent Revolution» organization but is opposed in Florida by a coalition of parent - led groups including the PTA.

A number of leading national organizations and coalition groups, including the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities and the 14 organizations forming the 2004 Learning Disabilities (LD) Roundtable coalition, have outlined the core features of an RTI process as follows: • High quality, research - based instruction and behavioral support in general education.

Coalitions of community - based organizations, student groups and teachers unions have developed in a number of cities across the country to rally around educational justice.

While CLASS is comprised of different sorts of advocacy groups — from InnerCity Struggle to Educators for Excellence — the broad - based coalition shares the same overarching mission: close the achievement gap in LAUSD.

Organized by the Community Coalition, the groups presented a comprehensive, data - driven «Student Need Index» that uses environmental, social and academic factors known to impact student achievement — such as poverty and violence — to produce a district - wide ranking of schools based on need.

The coalition includes the NAACP, the National PTA and the American Association of People with Disabilities - as well as San Francisco - based Public Advocates, which represented a coalition of community groups that brought the 2010 court complaint against the federal regulations.

Recently, a coalition of local community Chicago groups offered a strong blueprint for community - based school improvement.

In 2015, A + Colorado and a coalition of Aurora - based community groups came together to inform the Aurora community and offer recommendations in the report If Not Now: Transforming Aurora Public Schools from Failing to Great.

Calling themselves a «grassroots movement» in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's plan to use taxpayer money to open two new charter schools while making historic cuts to Connecticut's public schools, the New York based charter school industry group known as «Families for Excellent Schools Inc. / Coalition for Every Child» paid at least $ 87,000 to rent buses to bring in charter school parents and students from as far away as New York and Boston for the pro-charter school rally that took place at the Connecticut State Capitol last week.

He also coordinated Communities for Los Angeles Student Success (CLASS), a Los Angeles - based coalition of civil rights, education and community advocacy groups dedicated to closing the opportunity and achievement gaps for students - of - color and students living in poverty.

National black and Hispanic education reform advocacy groups, as well as Florida - based coalitions of minority clergy, have argued that the scholarships provide opportunities for high - quality education to predominantly minority children who wouldn't get it otherwise.

As a coalition of over 200 civil rights, consumer, labor, business, investor, faith - based, and civic and community groups, Americans for Financial Reform supports the Department of Education's announcement last month of a new competition for student loan servicing contracts.

They are part of the international Open Wing Alliance and have collaborated with the group by sharing relevant information and coordinating campaigns against French - based multinationals.132 Recently, they helped found a coalition of 26 French animal charities focused on political change.

Last week, China Animal Protection Power, a coalition of Chinese animal protection groups based in Beijing, uncovered and closed an illegal dog collection depot in Changping, a suburban township of Beijing.

Worth - based coalition of breed rescue and all - breed rescue groups.

The department works with local and nationally - based groups and coalitions to help them advance their capacity; increase the professionalism of partner responders; and assist communities by funding training opportunities in disaster response and fighting animal cruelty.

Recommended by the ASPCA's Julie Morris, Vice President, National Shelter Outreach, the site is maintained by the Washington, DC - based Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (CCIC), a joint project between animal welfare groups and cruelty - free companies like Tom's of Maine and The Body Shop.

(07/27/2012) Asia Pulp & Paper's new sustainability commitment represents a scaling back of earlier environmental pledges and does not offer new protection for natural forests in Sumatra, alleges a new report from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of green groups based in Riau, Sumatra.