Family Violence Legal Service Aboriginal Corporation also engages in community
legal education and community development activities, as well as policy and law reform directed towards systemic change.
In addition to her legal work, Lisa has extensive experience in public
legal education and community outreach.
We also engage in law reform, public
legal education and community development initiatives.
Not exact matches
With a few exceptions, our business
community is behind the curve in terms of taking advantage of Belt
and Road opportunities — opportunities that extend well beyond physical infrastructure to the development of key social infrastructure projects, including
education and the provision of medical,
legal, financial,
and other social
and professional services.
The Sikh Coalition, United Sikhs
and the Sikh American
Legal Defense
and Education Fund are lobbying members of Congress in an effort to pressure federal transportation authorities to re-examine a policy they say unfairly scrutinizes members of the Sikh
community.
Navdeep Singh, a policy adviser to the Sikh American
Legal Defense
and Education Fund, says Sikhs believe in freedom of religion,
community service
and inclusiveness.
Studies of medical,
legal, engineering
and theological
education, unlike the inquiries referred to above, frequently ignore the
community and raise few questions about social purposes.
The National Association of Teachers of RE accuses a third of
community schools
and over a third of academies in England of failing to meet their
legal or contractual agreements to provide religious
education for this key age group.
All schools have a
legal requirement to offer religious
education at all ages but those in the RE
community claim the decline suggests the schools aren't being held to account
and ae flouting their obligations.
Protecting «Best Interests»
and Healthy Development of Children; Advancing Social
and Legal Justice; Promoting
Community Awareness
and Parental
Education.
Other commission members were Scott P. Campbell, executive director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation; Rose Harvey, commissioner of the State Office of Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation; Thomas Krever, CEO of the Hetrick - Martin Institute; Kelsey Louie, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis; Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need; Melissa Sklarz, development director at the Transgender
Legal Defense
and Education Fund;
and Glennda Testone, executive director of the LGBT
Community Center.
The letter's signers included the Empire State Pride Agenda, Lambda
Legal, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the LGBT
Community Center
and the Brooklyn
Community Pride Center, the Callen - Lorde
Community Health Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Transgender
Legal Defense &
Education Fund, Immigration Equality, the Family Equality Council, SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the GRIOT Circle: a gathering of elders,
and several organizations advocating on behalf of LGBT young people, including FIERCE, the Hetrick - Martin Institute,
and Streetwise
and Safe.
Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District
and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family &
Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya
Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council,
Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard
Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia
Community College Adult & Continuing
Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens
Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside
Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York,
and Y - Roads.
Five Buffalo teachers — supported by NYSUT — filed
legal papers today with the State
Education Department seeking the removal of school board member Carl Paladino for «racially inflammatory statements» about Obama, the first lady
and African - Americans that have violated his duty to serve as a role model for the school
community.
The Council identified eight major priorities in its response: increased investment in city youth; investment in healthcare,
education, jobs
and legal services for immigrants; specific funding for the diverse
communities; capital investment in infrastructure; creating a Rainy Day Fund
and adding to existing reserves; baselining essential city services; expanding criminal justice,
community support,
and human services;
and more accurately tracking city agency performance.
Since 1994, SRIC has worked with those
communities and the
community - based group, Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM - CCT), to stop the proposed mines through
community education, interaction with Navajo Nation leaders,
and a seven - year - long
legal challenge of the mines» federal license.
Paulina, the daughter of an eminent left - wing judge, suspends her
legal education and the prospects of a promising political career to travel to an indigenous
community of extreme poverty on Argentina's border with Paraguay
and Brazil.
We have talked about our program with higher
education officials, chief state school officers, state boards of
education,
and individual
community college
and no one has raised a
legal objection to the program.
This update covers a wider range of negative behaviours, incorporates the relevant
legal and inspection frameworks
and reflects the Church's Vision for
Education, whose four elements of wisdom, hope,
community and dignity form the theological basis of the guidance.
The judges at the competition are history, political science, law,
and education professors, members of the
legal community,
and others with a knowledge of the Constitution
and Bill of Rights.
CSBA provides policy resources
and training to members,
and represents the statewide interests of public
education through
legal, political legislative,
community and media advocacy.
Our
community advocates work with parents
and local groups throughout Alabama to help parents understand their
legal rights when it comes to their child's
education.
March 2013, Participated as an American representative at a conference on the
legal and constitutional rights of racial
and ethnic minorities in the European
Community sponsored by the German government
and the Center on Civic
Education, held in Munich.
About Partnership for Educational Justice (PEJ) An affiliate of the national
education nonprofit 50CAN, PEJ pursues educational equity through
legal action that empowers families
and communities to improve the quality of public schools.
Ralia's passion
and her keen
legal expertise have laid the foundation for PEJ to further its mission, pursuing
education advocacy through litigation
and empowering families
and communities to improve public
education through the courts.
Composed of leaders from finance,
education, research,
legal, nonprofit,
and business
communities, Committee for Children's Board of Directors serves as the governing body charged with providing oversight
and counsel on matters related to the organization's mission, vision, strategic plan,
and financial sustainability.
Ark Schools, Academies Enterprise Trust (AET), the David Ross
Education Trust
and Oasis
Community Learning admitted that they had yet to comply with the new
legal requirements.
««By teaching to the test, we are depriving a generation of youth, particularly youth of color growing up in low - income
communities, from developing the critical thinking skills they need,
and our country needs, to be competitive in this global economy,» added Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel at the NAACP
Legal Defense
and Education Fund.
Immi A free, online platform in English
and Spanish developed by the Immigration Advocates Network that confidentially screens for immigration options, know your rights
and community education resources,
and connects users to over 1,000 free
and low - cost non-profit immigration
legal service providers.
Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm
and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty
and racial discrimination by strengthening
community voices in public policy
and achieving tangible
legal victories advancing
education, housing
and transit equity.
NSBA is working with federal policy makers,
legal scholars, opinion leaders, members of the
education community, business leaders,
and the media to shape public
education so students graduating this year
and in the future, are ready for college, career,
and life.
American Association of Collegiate Registrars
and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) American Association of State Colleges
and Universities (AASCU) Association of American Colleges
and Universities (AAC&U) California
Community College Chancellor's Office Center for Innovation in
Education (CIE) College Board College Transition Collaborative Colorado Department of
Education ConnectEd Del Lago Academy Digital Promise EdImagine EdInsights
Education First EducationCounsel Envision Learning Partners Farmington Public Schools Great Schools Partnership Harvard Innovation Lab Hillsdale High School Internationals Network for Public Schools Irvine Foundation Ithaca College James Graham Brown Foundation Jobs for the Future June Jordan School for Equity Leadership Conference on Civil
and Human Rights Learning Policy Institute Los Angeles Unified School District Lumina Foundation Maker Ed Making Caring Common Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mastery Transcript Consortium Microsoft Montpelier School District NAACP
Legal Defense
and Educational Fund National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) National Urban League New Haven Academy New York Performance Standards Consortium Oakland Unified School District Pomona College Raikes Foundation Riverdale Country School San Francisco International High School Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Smith College Southern New Hampshire University Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning,
and Equity (SCALE) Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in
Education (SCOPE) Stuart Foundation Summit Public Schools The City University of New York The
Education Trust The Leadership Conference on Civil
and Human Rights Trovvit UC Riverside UNCF University of California, Office of the President University of Florida University of Michigan University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Southern California University of Texas, Austin University of Washington Virginia Beach City Public Schools
In 2014, the
Community Legal Aid Society
and the American Civil Liberties Union brought a complaint to the Department of
Education's Office of Civil Rights that asserted that the charter schools of Delaware were resegregating the state's schools by race
and by disability.
«To construct / renovate classrooms, restrooms / school facilities to improve the quality of
education at Brittan Elementary School, build a gymnasium for school
and community use; repair, construct, acquire classrooms, sites
and equipment, shall this Brittan Elementary School District measure be adopted to issue $ 4,000,000 of bonds at
legal rates, levy approximately 3 cents / $ 100 assessed value, generating approximately $ 260,000 annually while bonds are outstanding, with annual audits, independent citizens» oversight, NO money for salaries, all money staying local?»
Ralph Martire, Center for Tax
and Budget Accountability Catherine Brown, Center for American Progress David Sciarra,
Education Law Center Tom Saenz, Mexican American
Legal Defense & Educational Fund Michael Rebell, Campaign for Educational Equity Doris Williams, Rural School
and Community Trust Karen Hawley Miles,
Education Resource Strategies Cindy Brown, Center for American Progress
Our passionate team of parent leaders,
education advocates
and legal experts empowers local
communities to strengthen their schools by pursuing common sense policy changes.
They will develop
and review strategic plans; ensure the operation of the trust complies with its
legal requirements
and delivers a high quality curriculum, using resources efficiently
and effectively, to deliver outstanding
education and outcomes for its pupils
and communities.
Legislation to protect Dreamers — including the 20,000 educators with DACA — that includes pathways to
legal status or citizenship would not only increase the GDP, creating more revenue with which to improve public schools, but it would also mean that students
and families across the country currently living in fear of deportation could focus on both their
education and creating a better future for themselves
and their
communities.99
We're currently six people nationally, so the resources that we produce are really around
education and then we try
and work with intermediaries like financial counsellors
and community legal centres to give them the tools that they need to be able to run that kind of
education on the ground in
communities.
Acadiana Animal Aid understands that achieving a no kill
community for Acadiana requires strong, strategic life - saving programs,
community outreach,
legal advocacy,
education programs
and collaboration with other animal advocates to be successful.
VLA strives to protect the artistic
community's livelihoods, businesses,
and creative works through access to dedicated
legal representation
and focused
education programs.
Education: The Climate Science Defense Fund will work to educate the scientific
community about their rights
and their responsibilities with regard to
legal issues surrounding their work.
As we grew, we added to the
legal support
and education services we provide the climate science
community.
I've also been inspired by working with
communities and organizations that are addressing the sustainability movement through various approaches, including
community organizing,
education, social justice, public health, the
legal system,
and ecopsychology.
Flip Your Wig for Justice is a pledge - based fundraiser to support seven justice groups: the Association in the Defense of the Wrongly Convicted, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association,
Community Legal Education Ontario, the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women
and Children, the Ontario Justice
Education Network, Pro Bono Law Ontario,
and Pro Bono Students Canada.
«We started this blog as a way to inform the College of Law
community about key
legal -
education, research, practice,
and law - library news, including but not limited to items of particular interest to Maricopa County
and Arizona.»
My skepticism arises from a number of things including the columnists» lack of evidence or investigation, my own approach to teaching, my research
and writing on
legal education (both for scholarship
and as chair of our curriculum reform committee),
and what I see my colleagues at the U of C
and in the
legal ethics
community doing for their students.
The PLEI Connect project team is made up of
Community Legal Education Ontario www.cleo.on.ca, Éducaloi www.educaloi.qc.ca, PovNet http://povnet.org
and Courthouse Libraries BC www.courthouselibrary.ca.
It is wonderful to see such efforts not only to keep the
legal community informed, but also to contribute to the advancement of public
legal education and understanding of the judiciary's work.
His areas of concentration include
education / youth, health / medical,
legal, retail business
and urban
community development.