Sentences with phrase «board of the advocacy group»

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Since women make up just 15.9 % of the board seats of Canada's 500 largest companies by revenue according to advocacy group Catalyst, investors looking to apply a gender - lens strategy may find better pickings south of the border.

Joy Schoffler, principal of Leverage PR and board member of CFIRA, the crowdfunding industry's advocacy group, says the SEC and Congress members need to be reminded to ignore the naysayers.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

He sits on the board of the center - right National Association of Evangelicals, the country's biggest evangelical organization, as well as of the progressive advocacy group Faith in Public Life.

«Sometimes, what looks good on paper doesn't work on the ground,» said Katherine Shek, a legislative analyst for the National School Boards Association, which praised Obama's commitment to school nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislation.

Jodine serves on the board of her local breastfeeding advocacy group, for the Best for Babes Foundation, and volunteers with ILCA, INFACT Canada, and Friends of the WHO Code.

Transit advocacy groups (including the Riders Alliance and Transportation Alternatives) are, of course, on board, as are some surprising groups, including REBNY and Uber.

The latest executive actions have bolstered Cuomo's support among engaged liberal advocacy groups, ranging from LGBT organizations thrilled with his plan to write regulations to protect transgender New Yorkers to labor groups who have pushed him for years to take action on the minimum wage through the previously little - known power of the Department of Labor wage board.

Elected officials joined in Manhattan Sunday with advocacy group Riders Alliance and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli over the weekend with their eyes on the new state dollars made possible through the 2013 - 14 budget passed last month, which included an increase of more than $ 358 million for transit.

Real Estate Board of New York president John Banks received a raise during his second year at the helm of the industry's biggest advocacy group.

Wastewater management advocacy group Defend H2O is urging the Southold Town Board to follow in the footsteps of Brookhaven Town and adopt more stringent sewer discharge regulations.

State leaders and advocacy groups have accused the board of making decisions that favor private school students at the expense of public school children, many of whom are low - income, have disabilities or are immigrants who don't speak English.

New Yorkers for Students» Educational Rights, an education advocacy group, is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Board of Regents and state Education Commissioner John King, claiming the state has systematically shortgaged the public school system by failing failing to comply with an agreement that followed the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity Ruling of 2006.

New York State United Teachers, with local unions and advocacy groups, announced Thursday an upcoming effort to lobby Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state Legislature, the state Education Department and the Board of Regents to end testing in pre-kindergarten through second grade.

Day lobbied the County Executives of America, an influential non-partisan advocacy group of which he is a board member, to pass a resolution calling for New York to change its policy of requiring counties to pay for Medicaid

«It's unfortunate the Army Corps» plan allows for the continued disposal of potentially harmful materials into the Long Island Sound, despite the strong objections across the board from New York's elected officials, residents and environmental advocacy groups,» he said.

After years of pressure from grassroots advocacy groups, the MTA board voted unanimously to ban advertising of alcoholic beverages on New York City buses, subway cars and stations, contending that the social benefits of deterring underage drinking outweighed the loss of revenue.

Today Bryan Lawrence, Board Chair of Families for Excellent Schools, put out a statement saying that the charter school advocacy group will be dissolving.

The spokeswoman for Election Justice U.S.A., a voting rights advocacy group that put together a lawsuit against the state's Board of Elections for voter registration issues, said she is «concerned» about a possible conflict of interest with Stringer.

The state Board of Regents, in its spending proposal issued last month, called for an additional $ 125 million, while advocacy groups have called for even more.

That looked like it would go the way of redistricting, But when a critical mass of editorial boards and advocacy groups actually proposed to hold the governor to his promise, Cuomo had to make a show, at least, of pushing for it.

The Third Point C.E.O. serves on the board of StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter advocacy group whose board members also include former schools chancellor Joel Klein and Success Academy Charter Schools founder Eva Moskowitz.

Also Thursday, former county legislative candidate Dean Hart, a Democrat who a runs good government advocacy group, asked the enforcement office of the state Elections Board to investigate the credit - card charge, demand reimbursement and reprimand the committee.

«Over the past decade, the Rockland Business Association has transformed itself from a networking organization to the most informed and influential advocacy group in the county,» said Jan Degenshein, the Chairman of the RBA board of directors.

«It's been really good for progressives that there's been kind of a race among potential presidential candidates to not just be on board, but be leaders on issues like Medicare for all, fighting for Dreamers and fighting against Trump's giveaways to billionaires and giant corporations,» said Adam Green, a founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal advocacy group.

Bruce MacAffer, 47, comes to the board with an advertising background at WPP Group USA, along with a history of advocacy for the 7 train extension.

I have also lobbied the County Executives of America, an influential non-partisan advocacy group of which I am a board member, to pass a resolution calling for New York to change its policy of requiring counties to pay for Medicaid.

Ying Qian next moderated a discussion with members of the SMA Foundation Patient Advisory Board and representatives from several SMA patient advocacy groups in order to hear patients» perspective on SMA as a whole body disease.

«You have now officially joined the list of Companies Promoting Immorality (CPI)-- a growing list, indeed,» wrote Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth, a conservative Christian advocacy group, in a letter to Neil Clark Warren, who has retired but is still on eHarmony's board.

The formation last week of a support and advocacy group for homosexual teachers in Utah capped a series of protests over the Salt Lake City school board's ban on extracurricular clubs.

The New York City Board of Education «effectively robs from public - school children» to provide Chapter 1 remedial services to students from religious schools, an advocacy group for public education has charged.

Michael Phillips, board chair of the leading education advocacy group 50CAN, spoke last month at a TEDxWilmingtonED Conference on the topic, «When Kids Learn on Broken Chairs.»

Having the Secretary of Education, state boards, and a bunch of DC advocacy groups declare a particular approach to be best and cram it into place in the middle of a financial crisis with virtually no public debate or input from educators or parents did not convince local officials, educators, and parents to change their minds.

The state board received a draft of the state plan in May; the state Department of Education has held statewide meetings and received extensive comments from the public and school and advocacy groups.

Snow is now executive director of Teach for America — Connecticut and is on the board of Excel, a local education advocacy group.

As the State Board of Education considers overruling the MNPS School Board and possibly approving charter schools for Nashville originally denied at the local level, grassroots advocacy group TREE is calling on citizens to take action.

Many of Bellwether's comments reiterated criticisms that California student advocacy groups, including Education Trust - West and Children Now, have previously made to the board.

A coalition of education - advocacy groups behind the effort is seeking a maximum of 40 public charter schools over five years, operated by qualified nonprofits and overseen by a local school board or a special state commission.

Today Bryan Lawrence, Board Chair of Families for Excellent Schools, put out a statement saying that the charter school advocacy group will be dissolving.

After soliciting input for over a year from education groups, research and advocacy organizations, students and parents, the State Board of Education on Friday approved final regulations governing how districts spend funds they receive through the Local Control Funding Formula, the state's new school financing law.

In a letter dated May 3, dozens of advocacy groups asked Brown to recommit to closing the academic achievement gap for high - need students as he considers an opening on the State Board of Education and a new plan for measuring school performance later this year.

At the public hearing conducted by our Board on the proposed rule, there was testimony from fifty witnesses, the large majority in opposition, primarily representing the teachers» unions and advocacy groups, colleges of education, and assorted education activists.

Katie Braude, executive director of the parent advocacy group Speak UP, said in an email: «Shirley served on the Board of Speak UP, and we were honored to have the opportunity to benefit from her wisdom and passion over the past two years.

The A + Denver education advocacy group has released results of a Denver Public Schools board candidate survey, but several candidates didn't consider it a valid exercise.

E4E - Los Angeles is part of a coalition of over 40 community and advocacy groups urging the district's school board to allow individual schools to decide how to...

She serves on the advisory board of Loyola University's Center for Innovation in Urban Education, the steering committee for Forest Park High School, and is working with a state - wide advocacy group to see community schools expand statewide.

«When you have national standards, it becomes very hard for a state school board to control what exactly your child is learning,» said Jenni White of Restore Oklahoma Public Education, a parent advocacy group.

StudentsFirstNY, an advocacy group that promotes charter schools and other education reforms, on whose board several of those donors sit, strongly endorsed the governor's campaign to make test scores matter more in evaluations, saying the existing system bore «zero resemblance» to how students themselves were performing across the state.

The coalition includes ConnCAN (the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First, the charter school management company that will end up the biggest winner under Malloy's bill), the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, the Connecticut Association of Schools, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents and the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.

She currently leads the advocacy group, American Federation for Children, and sits on the board of the Jeb Bush - led Foundation for Excellence in Education.