Sentences with phrase «by advocacy»

However, members of the public can only benefit by my advocacy on their behalves at $ 50.00 per hour for as long as they believe that they are reaping educational, thus money saving / problem avoiding benefits / strategies respectively (benefits / strategies that far exceed the value of a few ten spots that they are trading off for in return).

The Washington Report is a weekly publication compiled by the Advocacy Group of the National Association of REALTORS ®, covering legislative and regulatory policy activities affecting all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

: Current challenges, domestic or international, such as denial of historical facts or promotion of racial myths by advocacy groups.

Tuesday by advocacy groups the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Engine.

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.

Amid calls by advocacy groups for Facebook to notify affected people immediately, the company said it will begin notifying them Monday.

That's the question at the core of a privacy complaint launched by advocacy groups.

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act passed in 2008 after more than a decade of being fought for by advocacy groups.

For many of us in the legal marketplace, our entire careers have been influenced by her advocacy for in - house counsel that was equal parts passion and savvy.

Ontario Tenants Quick Facts by the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario

Some 75 high - achieving Year 12 students (aged 17) from low - income backgrounds from across the capital will take part in the week, which involves a three - and - a-half day placement with a barrister, a visit to either the Royal Courts of Justice or the UK Supreme Court, and a workshop on how to argue like a barrister, led by the Advocacy Training Council.

Recently, I was tasked with organizing and implementing a series of public legal education seminars on housing issues for youth, funded by the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario.

«The things in these current proposals don't fit squarely or neatly within the congressional authority and they go way beyond where I think anyone should want Congress to tread,» O'Malley said at the conference, hosted by the advocacy group Innovation Alliance, which represents the interests of patent owners.

New York's controversial new lawyer - advertising rules took effect yesterday, but a lawsuit filed in federal court by the advocacy organization Public Citizen aimed to strike them down as unconstitutional.

We have discussed that a scientist can also be an advocate and have policy preferences, and it has been suggested that these two roles should be separated so that the scientific work and role is not compromised by the advocacy.

from a respectable sounding entity which in reality has been set up by an advocacy group.

But it is a great example of tactical urbanism that was welcomed by advocacy groups.

Climate change science is perhaps the most tainted by advocacy twisting and drowning out the actual science, but it isn't the only one.

While some have pointed out that because the meeting was pulled together by an advocacy / industry group — Solar Connecticut — it's not a legitimate caucus, many still said they were encouraged.

WASHINGTON, DC, June 28, 2006 (ENS)- The United States has five percent of the world's population and 30 percent of the world's automobiles, but the country contributes 45 percent of the world's automotive emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, according to a report released today by the advocacy group Environmental Defense.

This is why no one should trust IPCC reports as they are driven by advocacy.

Washington, DC — The U.S. Congress today introduced bipartisan legislation in response to a groundbreaking undercover investigation by advocacy group Global Witness.

Response (2 - 11): The implication that the credibility of IPCC's statement on African crop yields is diminished because the IPCC's source (Agoumi, 2003) for the statement was published by an advocacy organization or an organization with a «declared political interest in climate change» is unsupported.

They produce advocacy reports written by advocacy scientists.

one was a billboard, paid for by an advocacy group; the other was published in a very high impact journal.

Lots of amicus briefs are written by advocacy groups who have no involvement in the case at hand, no involvement with the parties, and no property at stake... but only a great interest in the legal questions being decided.

I encourage people to read the Morgan Stanley report (rather than the rosy report on it by an advocacy group that FAN links to.

Palmer told Ken Ward Jr. of Coal Tatoo that the paper was not funded by any advocacy group, and Ward writes that the paper «underwent the most rigorous peer review by Science that they had ever seen».

I want to understand the psychology of the unpaid (indeed, unemployable by an advocacy group) blogging denialist a little better.

It was from Parker that Isberg learned his classical drawing techniques as well as being influenced by his advocacy for the New York School of abstract expressionism.

The bill is backed by an advocacy group, the White Coat Waste Project, which has been using the USDA - APHIS database to gather much of its information on animal testing at hundreds of federal laboratories.

Even with these omissions, this estimate is 100 - 1000 times higher than our estimates for the numbers of animals affected by advocacy for companion or lab animals, suggesting that farm animal advocacy is the most important cause of the three — at least in terms of the number of animals involved.

Even a quick look at the objections being lodged by these advocacy organizations might surprise laypeople.

Focuses on issues surrounding the identification of students with LD that was published in Learning Disability Quarterly, the scholarly journal of the Council for Learning Disabilities, and made available by The Advocacy Institute.

At 75 city schools, all the students in at least one grade failed the state math or reading tests this year, according to a new analysis by the advocacy group StudentsFirstNY.

A 2011 analysis by the advocacy group and think tank Child Trends found that majority of school suspensions are for nonviolent offenses.

The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students.

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low - income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news.

Now, 15 states have policies that base teacher tenure partly on student test scores, up from eight just a year earlier, according to a report released Monday by the advocacy group, StudentsFirst.

Gov. Hickenlooper supports public school choice, as evidenced by his advocacy for charter schools.

Each of the entities operated by the advocacy organizations is subject to different restrictions under the U.S. tax code and campaign - finance laws.

Speaking an event about teacher evaluations hosted by the advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence, Walcott said he aimed to finalize an agreement with the UFT by the end of December, more than two weeks before Cuomo's deadline.

But most of the studies compiled by the advocacy group found only modest positive relationships between test scores in public schools and competition from voucher programs or tax - credit scholarship programs.

David Weiner, the deputy chancellor in charge of teacher quality, stressed that the issues were «not sticking points» when he spoke with teachers at an event last week hosted by the advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence, which supports new evaluations.

Schools that had been open for at least six years had larger average wait lists — 239 students — compared with newer charters, which tend to have fewer, the survey by the advocacy group revealed.

California's short probationary time was one of five teacher protection laws challenged in the Vergara v. California lawsuit brought by the advocacy organization Students Matter.

Many school districts are taking the slow approach to better nutrition and may not be in compliance with the National School Lunch Program's new guidelines for several years, according to a report released last week by the advocacy group Public Voice for Food and Health Policy.

«The power built by the advocacy coalition we put together last year was instrumental in securing another large increase this year, as well as an increase in vital OST funding,» added Kerry Savage, PAVE policy analyst.

A draft action plan by the advocacy group FreedomWorks lays out the effort as a series of stepping stones: First, mobilize to strike down the Common Core.

The primary up - to - date source is an annual compilation by an advocacy organization, Child Care Aware of America.