Sentences with phrase «brought by the advocacy group»

The FTC is probing a complaint brought by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which looked at some 1,000 products on Amazon's website in June and found that Amazon (amzn) put reference prices, or list prices, on about 46 % of them.

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The latest effort to bring the bright blue bikes to The Bronx comes in the form of an online petition launched by bike advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, demanding that city officials approve public funding to support the bike system's expansion into all five boroughs.

All have been affected by mental illness and its stigma and have been brought together as part of a national public awareness campaign sponsored by McLean Hospital, in collaboration with Boston Logan International Airport and several mental health advocacy groups.

It would meet the requirements of a judge's ruling in a lawsuit brought by EdVoice, a Sacramento - based education advocacy group, that test scores must be included.

Malloy implemented an extremely prejudicial evaluation system for teachers, brought in Common Core and its associated testing (SBAC), crushed the OPT OUT movement, reduced funding for public schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership in CT..

Side Note: The emails reveal that the person who brought the Connecticut state officials and the billionaire's consultant together was none other than Alex Johnston, who was then the Executive Director of ConnCAN — the charter school advocacy group that was created by Achievement First — the charter school management company.

Yet now, according to a lawsuit brought by a group of students, parents and advocacy organizations against the state of California, the government is failing to teach students to read, thus reneging on its constitutional responsibility to provide a free and public education of at least reasonable quality.

Toronto's Book Summit 16, at mid-month, was presented by the Book and Periodical Council and Humber College, and brought together several representatives of advocacy groups for a needed exchange on authors» prospects in a fast - changing business.

But now they have all come together to safeguard the ascent of this dynamic cryptocurrency industry amidst much hustle caused by advocacy groups who are trying to bring upon a legislative drive which can handicap the growth surge of Bitcoins by imposing tax - reporting requirements and enhanced regulations.