Sentences with phrase «down on our advocacy»

In 2013 as we double - down on our advocacy efforts encompassing every aspect of the charter school movement we look forward to continuing to work with you on these vital issues.

At OREA, that means we're doubling down on our advocacy and member services to keep Ontario REALTORS ® ahead of the curve.

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Honore Comfort, Sonoma County Vintners group chief to step down: The top official with Sonoma County Vintners, the major advocacy and promotional trade group for the countys wineries, announced Wednesday she will leave the organization after almost nine years on the job...

The OccupyGhana advocacy on corruption, maladministration and bad governance, has since died down, as many of its key members are now appointees of the Akufo - Addo government.

DCMJ, an advocacy organization that helped legalize marijuana in Washington, D.C. in 2014, is hosting the inaugural #Trump420 on January 20 where people will gather on the west side of Dupont Circle at 8 a.m. for coffee and tea and hand out 4,200 joints of legally grown cannabis as they parade down to the National Mall at 10 a.m..

Unions and advocacy groups have pushed legislation that would cut down on testing or dilute the state's reform agenda by enacting a three - year moratorium on using scores from Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes.»

Demanding that Gov. Cuomo pay up on the state's long - overdue $ 2.5 billion debt to New York City public schools, two education advocacy groups at a press conference on Feb. 19 released a report that broke down the money owed by Assembly and Senate district in New York City so that each lawmaker who is going to vote on the state budget can tell exactly how much money is missing from his or her district.

Democrats also question if big money pumped into Senate races on behalf of Republican candidates will be there given a recent scandal that is causing the deep - pocketed Families for Excellent Schools - Advocacy to shut down.

The amendment to the Montreal Protocol phasing down heat - trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which was adopted in the early hours of Saturday in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, is in part the result of 7 1/2 years of lobbying and maneuvering by the Obama administration, environmental advocacy community and U.S. industry bent on using the ozone treaty to phase down the climate - forcing chemicals.

Cecelia Bellcross, director of Emoryâ $ ™ s genetics counseling program and an expert on breast cancer genetics counseling, reports that â $ œin general, the clinical genetics community is jumping up and down, as are a lot of genetics lab directors and definitely patient advocacy groups.â $

The Crnic Institute is made possible by the generous support of the Anna and John J. Sie Foundation, and relies on the Global Down Syndrome Foundation for fundraising, education, awareness, and government advocacy.

«So, what we're doing is going to Raleigh on that day to fight for public education, but we're also making sure that our community is going to hold us down here,» said Bryan Proffitt, president of the Durham Association of Educators, a teacher advocacy organization that organized the Durham teacher walkout on May 16.

On the day of the vote, we saw first - hand the incredible power of collective advocacy as 1,500 charter school parents rallied in front of LAUSD with the board ultimately voting down this misguided resolution.

Respectfully, Action United Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Alliance for Multilingual Multicultural Education American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education American Association of State Colleges and Universities American Federation of Teachers ASPIRA Association Association of University Centers on Disabilities Autistic Self Advocacy Network Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network California Association for Bilingual Education California Latino School Boards Association Californians for Justice Californians Together Campaign for Fiscal Equity Campaign for Quality Education Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning Center for Teaching Quality Citizens for Effective Schools Coalition for Educational Justice Council for Exceptional Children Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Easter Seals ELC, Education Law Center FairTest, The National Center for Fair & Open Testing Higher Education Consortium for Special Education Justice Matters Latino Elected and Appointed Officials National Taskforce on Education Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Learning Disabilities Association of America Los Angeles Educational Partnership Movement Strategy Center NAACP National Alliance of Black School Educators National Center for Learning Disabilities National Council for Educating Black Children National Council of Teachers of English National Disability Rights Network National Down Syndrome Congress National Down Syndrome Society National Education Association National Latino / a Education Research and Policy Project National League of United Latin American Citizens Parent - U-Turn Parents for Unity Philadelphia Education Fund Public Advocates Inc..

With the express mission of unseating Republican governors and flipping control of conservative state legislatures — legacies of the GOP tide in 2010 — the two national unions, in particular, are taking a page out of the playbook of some newer and smaller education advocacy groups: Focus on down - ballot candidates and work up to the top ticket.

One 10 year - old attending Advocacy Day with her mom explained her classroom's method of calming down — «breathe in the soup, blow on the soup to cool it down».

These programs include national advocacy initiatives focused on shutting down puppy mills, fighting breed - discriminatory legislation, and keeping community cats safe and out of shelters.

With some customers spending what might be over $ 10,000 in a single month, the Japanese government sought to crack down on the practice under the guise of consumer protection advocacy.

«I called a meeting with the museum, and before I walked in, I sat down and read through all the notes I'd taken at the Creative Capital Core Weekend on negotiation and self - advocacy to work myself into a confident stance.

We combine action on shutting down coal plants and other toxic facilities at the local level, as well as building of new toxic facilities, with advocacy to strengthen development, monitoring, and enforcement of regulations at federal, state, and local levels.

JOHN HOCKENBERRY: Borrowing tactics used on behalf of the tobacco industry, advocacy groups were enlisted to confuse the issue and shut down new federal regulations.

From hard - hitting investigations on illegal ODS trade to successful advocacy to accelerate the HCFC [hydrochlorofluorocarbons] phase - out and adopt a global HFC phase - down, EIA plays a unique and valuable role within the Montreal Protocol family.

Thanks to publications such as ABC's report: Sudden Death on the High Seas — Longline Fishing, a Global Catastrophe for Seabirds and subsequent advocacy efforts by ABC and others seabird deaths in Hawai'i and Alaska are down by up to 85 %.

Moore writes in «Great Tide» that we're in an «all hands on deck» crisis, yet most scientists have been «down in the hold, muzzled by the vague but real fear that if they speak out, they will be punished for «advocacy,» the cardinal sin of science.»

Groia, quite naturally, being a member of the defence bar, comes down on the side of virtually unfettered advocacy.

Advocacy groups say this is by design, and that companies like Apple are keeping supposedly neutral standards bodies from implementing environmentally friendly measures that could increase device longevity and cut down on the number of new units manufactured.

AT&T also took a not - so - subtle jab at competitor T - Mobile, which has drawn criticism from YouTube and internet advocacy group, Electronic Frontier Foundation, for slowing down videos on its network via its Binge On unlimited video streaming program, even if the service isn't partnered with T - Mobilon its network via its Binge On unlimited video streaming program, even if the service isn't partnered with T - MobilOn unlimited video streaming program, even if the service isn't partnered with T - Mobile.

In 2015, the National Association of REALTORS ® saw record - breaking grassroots advocacy and RPAC fundraising, doubled down on its commitment to REALTOR ® safety, changed the direction of its national advertising campaign, and partnered with the brokerage community on a game - changing initiative to streamline listing data entry and syndication.