Sentences with phrase «by the advocacy group studentsfirstny»

These numbers were determined by the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS), conducted by the advocacy groups the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, and reported in the UCLA study.

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.

That's how many examples are on a «list of the harmed,» people who have offered personal stories of harm from fracking, as tallied by the advocacy group Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air.

Life - sized cutouts depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wearing «Fix Fakebook» T - shirts are displayed by advocacy group, Avaaz, on the South East Lawn of the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10, 2018, ahead of Zuckerberg's appearance before a Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees joint hearing.

This petition is nothing more than another attempt to scare consumers by an advocacy group long - dedicated to attacking the food and beverage industry.

The most infamous of the basketball - rapper group was Allen «Jewelz» Iverson, whose single «40 Bars» was criticized heavily by advocacy groups and then - NBA commissioner David Stern:

Last month, I participated in an important panel at a childhood obesity conference to discuss the current strategy backed by some advocacy groups: asking industry to market «healthier» foods to children.

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.

The latest social media innovation is KONY 2012 by the advocacy group «Invisible Children.»

Democratic congressional candidate Gareth Rhodes Friday touted an online survey by an advocacy group that ranked him first among the crowded field of candidates vying for the nomination in the 19th district.

Crain's has conducted an analysis of data scraped and made publicly available by advocacy group InsideAirbnb, and found the number of users making their homes available is up slightly from February.

The sites visited by the advocacy group Tuesday night included 489 Ninth Avenue, 411 - 413 Eighth Avenue and 315 West 35th Street, and are all in Quinn's district.

It will be marked by commemorations by public officials as well as marches and strikes by advocacy groups.

The disparity between the numbers was highlighted Thursday in a report by the advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools, a vocal de Blasio critic.

The video series, which was organized by the advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, is intended to rally support for a possible legislative effort to legalize same - sex marriage in New York, according to an earlier statement from the group.

It has since been criticized by advocacy groups, mostly prominently the New York Civil Liberties Union, for what the organization has called unfair suspensions for minor infractions that had helped compound the so - called school - to - prison pipeline.

Those against the budget are basing their opposition mostly on misleading information supplied by advocacy groups and service providers who are merely looking to maintain their stranglehold on taxpayer dollars.

In a brief floor speech, Savino said the bill was being pushed by advocacy groups with a compelling interest in legalizing marijuana for recreational use, who she accused of «utilizing the pain and suffering of these families to try and peel back the regulatory structure that we've established here in New York state.»

Next, they developed a list of measures to evaluate the five factors they believed should account for the changing levels of concern: extreme weather events, public access to accurate scientific information, media coverage, positions of political elites and efforts by advocacy groups.

An accompanying report calls for setting up a multi-institute Down syndrome initiative that has been championed by an advocacy group, but does not specify a funding amount.

Twenty - five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, groundwater at the accident site — a drinking water supply for 15 communities — remains contaminated, according to a report released today by an advocacy group and a medical clinic.

Some ads produced by advocacy groups outside the campaigns go beyond the issues into ad hominem attacks, labeling Schaffer as «Big Oil Bob»; a Web site shows a cartoon of him riding an oil well like a cowboy.

We had firsthand experience dealing with climate skeptics, amplified by advocacy groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a lot of the think tanks that were allegedly funded by ExxonMobil and other firms.

March 24, 2016 UChicago Medicine identified as a leader in LGBT Health Equality The Human Rights Campaign is naming The University of Chicago Medicine as a «Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality,» according to a new report released Thursday by the advocacy group.

That surprise reversal can be attributed to at least four factors: a wave of new research on teacher quality, philanthropic interest in boosting teacher effectiveness, efforts by advocacy groups and policymakers to revamp state laws on evaluation, and political pressure to dismiss poorly performing teachers.

An exception may be the recent viral explosion amongst the young following the YouTube film on Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army, made by the advocacy group Invisible Children (Kony, 2012).

The New York City school system's Chapter 1 program is still violating the constitutional separation of church and state, according to a lawsuit filed by the advocacy group that initiated the Aguilar v. Felton case.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

«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.

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

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

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