Sentences with phrase «dozens of advocacy groups»

In a letter dated May 3, dozens of advocacy groups asked Brown to recommit to closing the academic achievement gap for high - need students as he considers an opening on the State Board of Education and a new plan for measuring school performance later this year.

In a letter dated May 3, dozens of advocacy groups...

That language has alarmed dozens of advocacy groups, including the American Library Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Reporters Without Borders, which sent a letter (PDF) to Congress last month opposing CISPA.

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In the months and weeks leading up to the congressional debate, she's met with dozens of lawmakers, conservative advocacy organizations, and business groups to build consensus and support for a plan that adopts parts of a 2015 proposal by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee.

Independent environmental advocacy groups have already been warning that benzene levels in some areas of Texas have reached worrying highs, while more than a dozen toxic waste sites were also flooded or destroyed.

One health advocacy group said it found high levels of lead in dozens of products purchased around the country, including children's jewelry, backpacks and ponchos.

But more than a dozen advocacy organizations — including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union and Sunlight Foundation, as well as New York - based good government groups — sent a letter to the governor late last month, arguing his policy was technologically unnecessary and out of step with the federal government, which saves emails from rank - and - file employees for seven years.

The Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of the conservative advocacy group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, is among more than two dozen signatories of an open letter to Trump that presents pointed questions about the current Republican front - runner's commitment to culture - war issues including abortion, same - sex marriage and gambling.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER In a December 4 statement, more than a dozen major groups from New York's LGBT advocacy community came together to voice their «outrage over the lack of indictment in the Eric Garner case.»

At roughly the same time, several dozen demonstrators from the advocacy group Picture the Homeless rallied outside the Vanderbilt Avenue headquarters of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, in protest against the Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict Mr. Pantaleo in the Garner homicide, and against broken windows policing.

New York, NY — A coalition of more than two dozen non-profit organizations, labor unions, and advocacy groups sent a joint letter to the New York Congressional Delegation demanding that the delegation reject the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Friday.

A dozen independent owners of medallions not affiliated with a taxicab fleet and an advocacy group which supports these owners slapped the city and top Taxi & Limousine Commission honchos on Wednesday with a Manhattan federal court lawsuit seeking to overturn the longstanding policy.

Earlier this year a group of more than a dozen health advocacy groups and individuals petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban lead acetate from hair dyes.

About 300,000 are scattered throughout about a dozen countries worldwide, with the largest population in Germany, says Murad Ismael, executive director of the Yezidi advocacy group YAZDA in Houston, Texas (see graphic).

This advocacy group has developed a ranking of produce called the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen which explores 51 different fruits and vegetables based on pesticide residue.

Today, the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy nonprofit, released its latest «Dirty Dozen» list of the 12 fruits and vegetables that are most contaminated with pesticides, as an update to its 2010 rankings.

The common academic - content standards that dozens of states are now adopting are better overall than 33 individual states» standards, according to an analysis released today by a Washington research - and - advocacy group.

Within hours, dozens of education advocacy groups, think tanks, university departments, and media outlets adopt new «verticals» dedicated to «strange» strategies and interventions.

Earlier in the day a handful of teachers affiliated with the education advocacy group Stand for Children invited a half - dozen reporters to Ritz's statehouse office, urging the state superintendent to allow implementation of the Common Core to continue.

TREE in partnership with a dozen other advocacy groups circulated a petition earlier this summer calling for the publication of standardized test questions and answers; pre-determined cut scores; and a reduction in the use of standardized tests.

Since Malloy introduced his «Education Reform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school system.

But in lengthy testimony earlier this month (see webcast, item 23, starting at minute 55), dozens of parents and students — organized by low - income student advocacy groups — pressed the state board to add other measures in the future.

The Web site of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has at least 200 complaints about transmissions on those vehicles, while the Center for Auto Safety, a consumer advocacy group, has almost four dozen.

The integrity of any final dispensation of the Corcoran depends on several key points raised by the petitioners, which include the advocacy group Save the Corcoran and more than a dozen other plaintiffs.

«An NPR story last year thrashed the company for «pouring millions and millions of dollars» into dozens of groups, «some of which were transparently industry front groups, and some of which were right - wing economics advocacy groups, that themselves spent decades in various degrees of climate denial.

Gart and Dan Grunig, the head of bike - advocacy group Bicycle Colorado, can share a dozen stories of Colorado towns bisected by highways — including Gunnison, Steamboat Springs and Winter Park — struggling against byzantine, autocentric transportation department regulations when trying to solve even simple problems such as securing a pedestrian crossing.