Sentences with phrase «nonprofit advocacy»

In contrast, a nonprofit advocacy organization and two consumer advocacy groups submitting a joint comment stated that the Bureau should extend RESPA coverage to all manufactured homes, including those titled as personal or real property.

Across the country, the use of LARCs among adolescent girls has been increasing even as teenage pregnancy rates have been falling, according to Heather Boonstra, director of public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit advocacy organization for sexual and reproductive health issues.

EPIC, a nonprofit advocacy group, claims Samsung violated federal privacy law because of its Smart TV's ability to collect and transmit recorded conversations.

Facebook «goes into this endless hairsplitting that people should have known,» said Marc Rotenberg, president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit advocacy group that has brought privacy cases before the FTC.

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American Association for Justice The American Association for Justice is a nonprofit advocacy and lobbying organization that seeks to promote a fair and effective justice system and to protect all citizens Seventh Amendment right to a trial by jury.

Felix Kramer, founder of CalCars.org, a nonprofit advocacy and technology demonstration group based in Palo Alto, is all ears.

Proponents of the bill, such as the Hemp Industries Association and the nonprofit advocacy group Vote Hemp, argue that hemp products — including food, body care products and textiles — are a multimillion - dollar industry that could benefit California's economy by allowing the raw materials to be grown here instead of importing hemp from overseas.

But at least $ 3 million came into the club from the labyrinth Koch network between 2009 and 2015, according to the tax returns of their various nonprofit advocacy groups.

As reported by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit advocacy coalition of scientists, the waste that coal creates is catastrophic:

StrayCatAlliance.org, a national nonprofit advocacy organization for the humane care, rescue and protection of cats, opposes local authorities» plan to trap and kill stray, feral and free - roaming cats in the area.

Founded in 2004, ARME is a nonprofit advocacy group created to eliminate the suffering of all animals through rescue, public education and outreach.

«There are quite a few offers out there,» says Linda Sherry, director of national priorities for the nonprofit advocacy group Consumer Action.

Like mortgages, student loans were bundled into packages and sold to investors his is robosigning 2.0 with student loans, says Robyn Smith, a lawyer with the National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy group.

And there might not be many people even interested in the job, said Timothy Daly, president of TNTP, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Those ratings, by the nonprofit advocacy group National Council on Teacher Quality, which has been a vocal critic of teacher preparation programs, were based heavily on education school curriculum and selectivity.

«[LCFF] represented a massive equity investment — we were talking about actually making sure that the resources were generated [for] high - needs kids,» said Samantha Tran of Children Now, a nonprofit advocacy group in California.

Backing the lawsuit is Students Matter, a nonprofit advocacy group that brought national attention to teacher tenure laws with an unsuccessful lawsuit in California state courts.

Former U.S. Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr, now President & CEO of Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levels, particularly for students of color and low - income students, delivered the keynote address at the fall 2017 convening of the By All Means consortium.

«California is really behind compared to the rest of the nation when you think about data systems and the ability to use data to improve practice,» said Samantha Tran, of the nonprofit advocacy group Children Now.

About 275,000 students nationwide are enrolled full time in online schools, according to Susan Patrick, president of the International Association for K - 12 Online Learning, a nonprofit advocacy group.

The issue is bigger than L.A. Unified, said Arun Ramanathan, executive director of Education Trust - West, a nonprofit advocacy group not involved in the pending litigation.

CAGT is a nonprofit advocacy organization with a 40 year history of providing information, leadership and support to gifted young people, their families and educators of gifted young people in Colorado.

As you are aware, the Cleveland Transformation Alliance is a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to growing a portfolio of high - performing district and community schools in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Nonprofit advocacy groups like Advocates for Children and Resources for Children with Special Needs can also offer free, spot - on advice.

Rachel Canter, the executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Mississippi First, said that part of the problem is that the public isn't well informed on the standards.

School administrators will have to explicitly address the racial biases and stereotyping that stifle black educators» professional growth, argue researchers Ashley Griffin and Hilary Tackie in a new report from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization.

John B. King, the former U.S. education Secretary and incoming president of the Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, has expressed a range of concerns about DeVos and her commitment to public education, but said he's also keeping an open mind.

Those challenges are why Lester's principal, Antonio Burt, a second - year principal trained by the national nonprofit advocacy group, New Leaders for New Schools, opened the doors to a visitor.

Ted Lempert, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Children Now, said Torlakson's choice of appointees will be important.

The Hechinger Report recently spoke with Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a nonprofit advocacy research organization dedicated to increasing the number of effective teachers.

«The district came back and said, «We would like a second chance to turn this school around,»» said David Phelps, spokesman for Parent Revolution, the nonprofit advocacy group that bankrolled the 24th Street push and lobbies for parent trigger legislation nationwide.

But the bill also hands the union a victory on two contentious issues, which is why Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy joined nonprofit advocacy groups EdVoice, Education Trust - West, Children Now, and StudentsFirst in opposing AB 5.

Asked for his response, Ryan Smith, executive director of the Education Trust — West, a nonprofit advocacy organization, said: «I was troubled by those comments because although we have local control, it's up to all of us at both the state and local level to ensure that LCFF has positive results.

Tran spoke at Wednesday's public meeting on behalf of Children Now, a nonprofit advocacy organization that was part of a coalition that had sent a letter to the state board before the meeting asking for «greater transparency» in the process of changing the dashboard.

Tran spoke at Wednesday's public meeting on behalf of Children Now, a nonprofit advocacy organization that was part of a coalition that had sent a

Taryn Ishida, executive director of Californians for Justice, a nonprofit advocacy organization, said that having teachers from similar racial or ethnic backgrounds as students «helps students engage in learning.

«Most of the laws were not that specific,» said Timothy Daly, president of The New Teacher Project, a nonprofit advocacy group.

The lack of progress in the younger grades trickles up: More than half of English learners now in California high schools are «long - term English learners,» meaning they have been in public schools for six years without learning English, according to a 2010 report by Californians Together, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Across the nation, 604 charter schools, or 12 percent, operate with unions, and more than half of them must do so under state laws, according to data compiled for the last school year by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a nonprofit advocacy organization.

For years, voters from all political parties have been telling pollsters at the First Five Years Fund, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on early learning, that they are in favor of more funding for early childhood education.

Education Superhighway, a nonprofit advocacy group backed by tech entrepreneurs, estimates that 72 percent of America's schools lack sufficient Internet infrastructure for digital learning.

Beginning later this year, several elementary and secondary schools in Chicago, Moscow, and Amsterdam will take part in «Project Metropolis,» a collaborative effort funded by International Movement Towards Education, a nonprofit advocacy group.

Project Appleseed, a nonprofit advocacy organization for parent involvement in education, provides an excellent primer on the many types of performance assessments and their advantages, as well as strategies for improving student performance.

Nonprofit advocacy org PACER is one of the main sponsors of Bullying Prevention Month.

EWG is the nation's most effective environmental nonprofit advocacy organization and uses game - changing research...

Companies purchase the simulation gloves to test out their own wares, and then apply to have their products reviewed by the Arthritis Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy organization based in Atlanta.

As reported in Mother Jones in 2002, the posters were sponsored by the Social Anxiety Disorder Coalition, a partnership between several nonprofit advocacy groups and SmithKline Beecham.

«This case perfectly illustrates why President Trump had to order executive agencies to affirm religious freedom, because park officials specifically targeted Dr. Snelling's religious faith as the reason to stop his research,» said Gary McCaleb, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian nonprofit advocacy and legal group that is representing Snelling in the suit.

«The law requires that a food safety plan be written up and that the farms keep a record of the way it is administering the plans,» said Alexis Baden - Mayer, political director of the Organic Consumers Association, a nonprofit advocacy group.