Sentences with phrase «coordinating umbrella group»

The State Policy Network serves as a coordinating umbrella group to advance a far - right agenda across a broad range of US states, often working in close conjunction with SPN members like ALEC.

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Borough President Katz and Assembly Member Markey hosted the press conference in their capacities as co-chairs of the World's Fair Anniversary Committee, an umbrella group that includes elected officials, the City's Parks Department, NYC & Company, the Queens Tourism Council and the participating cultural organizations that have worked for the past six months to organize and coordinate a fun, exciting and hopefully memorable series of events to celebrate the anniversaries.

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

IEL leads the Coalition for Community Schools, an umbrella group of more than 200 local, state, and national partners that advocate for more coordinated, efficient, and effective delivery of opportunities and supports to students before, during, and after school and on weekends.

AWNN, an umbrella group, is now coordinating with outside organizations such as Humane Society International to bring in veterinarians and food supplies and procure necessary vaccines and medicines for sick and injured animals.

Ohio is currently fighting this year's final battle in a nationally - coordinated attack on clean energy standard laws, implemented by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other groups belonging to the secretive corporate front group umbrella known as the State Policy Network (SPN).

The conference will take up such issues as the nature of domestic and international crimes committed; which high - level Bush officials, including Federal judges and Members of Congress, are chargeable with war crimes; which foreign and domestic tribunals can be used to prosecute them; and the setting up of an umbrella coordinating committee with representatives of legal groups concerned about the war crimes such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, ACLU, among others.