Sentences with phrase «federal advocacy»

«The bill is kind of a nonstarter for us at this point,» said Scott Astrada, director of federal advocacy at the Center for Responsible Lending.

«It is such an honor to lead federal advocacy efforts at the National School Boards Association at such a vital time for America's public schools,» said Zola.

Spence is a member of the leadership team for the Consortium of Large Countywide and Suburban School Districts, which works in partnership with AASA to provide a forum for member school divisions to collaborate on issues of practice, benchmark key data points against other districts, and collectively focus on federal advocacy.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is leading federal advocacy efforts to ensure the strongest possible nutrition programs to support children's lifelong health.

Our foci with federal advocacy efforts are around the areas of FAFSA simplification, sustaining the purchasing power of federal need - based financial aid, and ensuring continued availability of federal college access and success programs.

UPDATE 1:50 p.m.: The NEA's Manager of Federal Advocacy Mary Kusler sent HuffPost a statement responding to Barone's remarks:

Members of the NSBA legal and federal advocacy teams will cover Washington goings - on that affect your school district clients: ESEA, FERPA, Child Nutrition, and agency guidance and rulemaking.

As the leading advocacy group for public education, NSBA's federal advocacy group develops policies and strategies to secure legislation and regulations that enhance public education and support more than 50 million students in public schools.

In this opening session, a key member of NSBA's federal advocacy staff will discuss the beltway bargaining required to pass the new law, key provisions school attorneys should know and share with their clients, and the regulatory process ahead.

«We are very pleased that Michael Zola will lead the National School Boards Association's federal advocacy initiatives,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA Executive Director.

As head of the Washington, D.C. office for over a decade, she directed the organization's federal advocacy around issues involving voting rights, education, employment discrimination, fair housing, and criminal justice.

The National Leadership Circle is a coalition of state and local bicycling and walking advocacy organizations involved in supporting League federal advocacy, setting League federal policy, and helping us build capacity in local and statewide advocacy organizations through the Active Transportation Leadership Institute.

She also worked at the National Immigration Forum doing federal advocacy on immigrant rights and border policy.

A change that was considered, but was ultimately rejected, was for Presidents from Divisions that have Federal Advocacy Coordinators to not be invited.

Consult the resources below to learn more about the Academy's federal advocacy priorities related to poverty and child health.

«We wouldn't rewrite the civil rights law because we have individuals at the helm we disagree with,» said Scott Astrada, director of federal advocacy for the Center for Responsible Lending.

In 2018, 2020 Mom will support the following initiatives through lobbying, engaging the MMH network in federal advocacy and hosting federal lobby days in May.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is leading federal advocacy efforts to ensure the strongest possible nutrition programs to support children's lifelong health.

Phillip Lovell, vice president of federal advocacy at the nonprofit Alliance for Excellent Education, which focuses on high school reform, says that there are simply not enough good charter school providers to take the place of all the low - performing, large urban high schools.

The bill would exempt 85 % of the mortgage industry from these reporting requirements, said Scott Astrada, the director of federal advocacy at the Center for Responsible Lending.

This tailored list of legal and federal advocacy resources includes: a guide for school board members; a Q&A co-authored by NSBA's Center for Public Education and the Data Quality Campaign; and a Phi Delta Kappa magazine article that offers insight on student data privacy efforts as of February 2015.

«The claim that this bill will help underserved urban and rural areas by expanding access to credit is false», said Scott Astrada, the Center for Responsible Lending's Federal Advocacy Director.

for more information and resources on the Academy's federal advocacy efforts on breastfeeding

We have seen success in local, state, and federal advocacy efforts in all of these areas.»

Bethany M. Little, 32, is the new director of federal advocacy and policy development for the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington - based education policy, research, and advocacy organization.

«The key to success will be whether educators and students feel a real difference in their schools and classrooms between the current and new law,» wrote the NEA's advocacy director, Kim Anderson, and its federal advocacy manager, Mary Kusler.

Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association Michael C. Zola, Associate Executive Director, Federal Advocacy & Public Policy, National School Boards Association Lucy Gettman, Deputy Associate Executive Director, Federal Advocacy & Public Policy, National School Boards Association Deborah Rigsby, Director, Federal Legislation, Federal Advocacy & Public Policy, National School Boards Association

Recently, E4E teachers have ramped up their work in ending disparities in school discipline through both local and federal advocacy.

Pollitt will oversee NSBA's Federal Advocacy & Public Policy group which develops policies and strategies to secure legislation and regulations that enhance public education and support more than 50 million students in public schools.

Phillip Lovell, vice president of federal advocacy at the Alliance, said the current waiver system isn't addressing graduation rate accountability.

«Closing the school and library connectivity gap is a major, progressive step in ensuring that America's school - age students, particularly those in rural and remote communities, gain equitable access to Internet connectivity,» said Lucy Gettman, Deputy Associate Executive Director, Federal Advocacy & Public Policy, National School Boards Association.

Pollitt will oversee NSBA's Federal Advocacy & Public Policy group, which is one of the top advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C..

«This proposed new investment in E-rate can elevate America's productivity and competitiveness,» said Lucy Gettman, Deputy Associate Executive Director for NSBA's Office of Federal Advocacy and Public Policy.

Our federal advocacy work is supported by the National College Access Network.

He has served as President of The Minnesota Association of School Administrators in 2013, having also served as co-chair of the Federal Advocacy committee and was named a Green Scholar.

Pollitt will oversee NSBA's Federal Advocacy & Public Policy group which develops policies and strategies...

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) President Anne M. Byrne; Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel; and Associate Executive Director, Federal Advocacy and Public Policy Michael C. Zola, met today with U.S. Department of Education (ED) Secretary Arne Duncan.

«Payday lending by any lender — including banks — is an abusive form of loan sharking, rooted in trapping borrowers in unaffordable, high - interest rate loans,» Scott Astrada, federal advocacy director at the Center for Responsible Lending, said in a statement.

On a Federal Advocacy Trip to Washington DC in May 2011, organized by Environmental Entrepreneurs to promote CleanTech, from left, David Moyar from MEI Hotels in Cleveland, Felix Kramer, and Laura Berland Shane from Siemens in Santa Monica met with Rep. Jay Inslee of Washington State.

Through local, state and federal advocacy, the National Bike Summit and our new Women Bike program, the League is helping to make biking better nationwide.