Sentences with phrase «civil rights organizations»

Rally participants represented a broad range of interests including homeowners, small business owners, civil rights organizations, church groups, home builders and real estate agents, consumers, business leaders, politicians, merchants and manufacturers, bankers, students and many others.

Rally participants represented a broad range of interests including home owners, small business owners, civil rights organizations, church groups, home builders and real estate agents, consumers, business leaders, politicians, merchants and manufacturers, bankers, students and many others.

Earlier this year, EPIC and a broad coalition of civil rights organizations submitted a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details of the Trump Administration's «extreme vetting» initiative, including the collection and use of social media information.

AI Justice works closely with traditional civil rights organizations as well as with grassroots organizations and local, state and national government officials to effect positive change in immigration policies.

Advancing Justice — Atlanta is one of five independent civil rights organizations that make up the national Asian Americans Advancing Justice affiliation.

These cases have exposed and challenged critical legal and evidentiary practices, including undercover police surveillance of civil rights organizations, the exclusion of prospective jurors based on previous political activities, the use of post-arrest psychiatric examinations by prosecutors when seeking the death penalty, and the exclusion of evidence of third party guilt by courts in capital cases.

Thank you to Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the most storied civil rights organizations in America, for joining as one of our community partners.

His clients include general practice firms and firms specializing in personal injury, workers» compensation, medical malpractice, mass torts, insurance defense, landlord - tenant Law, creditors» rights, the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies; state and county governments; non-profit civil rights organizations; and state bar associations.

Indigenous groups, labor, youth, scientists, food justice and clean water activists, religious groups, and civil rights organizations joined environmental groups in calling on world leaders attending the UN Climate Summit in New York this Tuesday to start taking real action to halt climate disruption.

And we've relied on community development organizations like the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in Brooklyn and civil rights organizations like the Urban League of Portland to conduct exhaustive outreach in low income communities and communities of color.

The racially discriminatory potential of employment credit checks is the key reason that civil rights organizations such as the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law have publicly opposed the use of employment credit checks.13 In general, civil rights law mandates that employers justify the appropriateness of an employment practice if it creates a disparate impact on a group historically subject to workplace discrimination.

Public funds should be spent on public schools, not private schools state the coalition of public policy, education, religious and civil rights organizations in the joint letter.

In these efforts, NSBA participates in the National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE), a coalition of more than 50 public policy, education, religious and civil rights organizations.

A second letter — signed by more than a dozen civil rights organizations — looks more specifically at equity in the accountability systems required under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers.

She is a founder of the Alliance for the Education of the Whole Child, a coalition of more than 45 education and civil rights organizations which organized to critique the overâ $ «reliance on standardized testing in the public schools and advocate for an assessment system consisting of multiple measures.

Therefore, educators, the press, community leaders, and civil rights organizations need to press for better and more positive solutions.

We are a broad coalition of education, health, youth development, and civil rights organizations.

Attendees voiced their support for a letter to the secretary from civil rights organizations representing girls, students with disabilities, and students who are LGBTQ, Native American, and Latino who were excluded from the summit.

Since then, more districts have joined in two other suits - the latest coming earlier this month led by one of the nation's most forceful civil rights organizations, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Gina served as the principal coordinator of these efforts, with her position at CHHIRJ initially funded by several collaborating civil rights organizations.

Hundreds of disability and civil rights organizations weighed in against the bill and conducted an aggressive advocacy effort.

Jay was selected to participate in the Educational Policy Fellowship Program through the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, D.C., and served as a member of the National Assessment Forum, a coalition of education and civil rights organizations advocating reforms in national, state, and local assessment policies and practices.

In 2012, we joined with the California State PTA, the California School Boards Association, education reform, and civil rights organizations to oppose AB5, which, as written, would have significantly weakened California state policies regarding teacher evaluation.

Prior to joining LEE, he led civil rights movement - building efforts in multiple sectors including, but not limited to, the faith - based community, historical civil rights organizations and low - income public school parents.

The guide was created with input from a variety of educational partners, including civil rights organizations, the NEA and AFT, and the PTA and offers engagement best practices and planning tools.

Many education organizations applaud the enhanced accountability and funding flexibility the bills provide to states and local districts, but civil rights organizations have serious concerns that the loosening of federal accountability mandates could lead to growing achievement gaps.

Ignoring the deep history between civil rights organizations and organized labor, reformers have charged the NAACP with working alongside unions, as if corporate America has done black folk many favors.

Concerned educators can begin by contributing their insights and public support to the National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD), a network of national civil rights organizations and others (my own organization is a member) advocating a greater commitment to racial and economic diversity in federal policy and funding.

He was selected to participate in the Educational Policy Fellowship Program through the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, DC, and served as a member of the National Assessment Forum, a coalition of education and civil rights organizations advocating reforms in national, state, and local assessment policies and practices.

By singling out the NAACP with multiple editorials, protests and letter - writing campaigns, the charter lobby threw cheap shots at one of our most historic civil rights organizations with the intent to rally the charter base.

Shortly after Vasquez Heilig's story broke, other prominent civil rights organizations issued similar statements about charter schools.

She serves professionally as an expert witness for the California Assembly Higher Education Committee, California Senate Education Committee, for civil rights organizations on issues of access, equity and discrimination and for select committees on financial aid, workforce training, accreditation and programs in support of upward mobility and student success.

The Alliance is committed to working in partnership with civil rights organizations and others to support states in ensuring an equity - driven implementation of this bill.

Jen also continued to build a movement by growing a community engagement team that visited nearly 50,000 homes across Connecticut, trained hundreds of volunteers and grew new alliances with faith leaders, education, business and civil rights organizations.

To attempt an explanation of how accountability for the entire system is possible, I elected to begin with a statement from this, October 28, 2014, letter from key civil rights organizations.

These changes increasingly create pro-reform parent constituencies among traditional labor allies such as civil rights organizations.

We can not, of course, say that these groups came to the defense of high - stakes, standardized testing at the behest of the Gates Foundation, but we should be clear that their politics align with that of the Gates Foundation, and so the fact that these particular civil rights organizations came out in force to support a central reform backed by the foundation should come as no surprise to anyone.

He served as a member of the National Assessment Forum, a coalition of education and civil rights organizations advocating reforms in nationa, state and local assessment policies and practices.

Duncan, along with a coalition of more than 200 civil rights organizations, is «[calling] on Congress, the Trump administration and Americans everywhere to defend civil rights and urge strong, uncompromising enforcement of our laws.»

There is a very strong critique of the civil rights organizations» anti-opt-out statement, written mainly by my good friend, colleague, and noted test - resister, Jesse Hagopian, with the endorsement of the Network for Public Education, so I'm not going to take up a close reading and critique of the civil rights organizations» anti-opt-out statement.

Which is why I was disappointed to see a statement from several mainstream civil rights organizations opposing the opt - out movement, supposedly on the grounds of civil rights and equality.

Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption on historical grounds, empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.

In late April, a coalition of civil rights organizations, including the N.A.A.C.P, the A.C.L.U., the Children's Defense Fund and the National Council of La Raza, delivered their own letter to Mr. King, supporting the new rule.

On May 5, 2015, a group of civil rights organizations released a statement in opposition to the growing movement to opt out of the current wave of high - stakes, standardized testing.

Assertion: The Tax Credit Scholarship faces «vast opposition by parents and civil rights organizations.»

Today, POLITICO cited a release from the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee Democrats that claimed Florida's Tax Credit Scholarship Program «has faced many problems, including constitutional challenges in the courts, vast opposition by parents and civil rights organizations, fraud and corruption» and was a «waste of taxpayer funds.»

Meanwhile it has ceded ground to Parent Power groups such as the Connecticut Parents Union and the Black Alliance for Educational Options, old - school civil rights organizations as the United Negro College Fund and 100 Black Men, and players such as Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Dr. Steve Perry, who are doing the work for which the NAACP was once known.

Since discussion of the overdue reauthorization of the federal law has resumed, however, a number of civil rights organizations have been equally outspoken about encouraging parents and students to comply with the annual testing required by NCLB.

But civil rights organizations, the business community, and urban districts are not on board.

07/9/2013: LULAC co-signs Letter with other civil rights organizations to Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee regarding the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.