Sentences with phrase «nonprofit groups pushing»

The Lumina Foundation has been one of the most influential nonprofit groups pushing the idea of competency - based education.

tweeted Jessica Polka, director of ASAPbio, a nonprofit group pushing for the use preprints in life sciences.

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Frustration over what was viewed as weak UN climate agreements, plus the US Senate's failure to pass a climate bill in 2010, pushed foundations and nonprofit groups — such as Greenpeace — to ensure their investments were not going to big oil companies.

It granted the mayor approval to fundraise for his newly established nonprofit group that was pushing his agenda, the Campaign for One New York.

For more than a year, JCOPE has been probing whether The Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit fundraising group Mr. de Blasio has used to push his agenda and which can accept larger contributions than his campaign, was improperly lobbying.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Human Services Nonprofits On Thursday morning, Council members rallied with nonprofit groups at City Hall to push the mayor for $ 25 million to cover administrative costs at contracted nonprofits that provide socialNonprofits On Thursday morning, Council members rallied with nonprofit groups at City Hall to push the mayor for $ 25 million to cover administrative costs at contracted nonprofits that provide socialnonprofits that provide social services.

Major casino operators are aggressively pushing for the licenses, and spent more than $ 11 million in the past two years to influence state and local policymakers, according to the nonprofit New York Public Interest Research Group.

Downtown parenting nonprofit Bowery Babes began pushing for renovations to the quarter - acre playground when the group was founded in 2006, said Avram, who is also a member of that group.

Several forceful nonprofit groups, such as the National Math and Science Initiative, Equal Opportunity Schools, and MassInsight Education, are doing excellent work in pushing AP into kindred high schools in lots of places — and changing educator expectations and school cultures to cause more disadvantaged youngsters to enter and succeed in such rigorous classes.

«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.

The push to change teacher evaluations has been driven largely by nonprofit groups and politicians, and it follows research demonstrating that teacher effectiveness is the most important in school - factor affecting student performance.

The nonprofit group is pushing world leaders to accept 350 parts per million as the safe target for stabilization of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

«The flood insurance program is one big storm away from not existing at all,» said Steve Ellis, the vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonprofit group that has long pushed for changes in the program.