Sentences with phrase «of advocacy groups»

Members of advocacy groups supporting overweight people say that the.

A number of advocacy groups say the fact that that children are not strapped down while in these seats has led to skull fractures and other injuries.

It became clear during the campaign, when I asked his — I was part of an advocacy group — I asked his handlers just what is his background?

At that time, today's familiar constellation of advocacy groups and charter school operators didn't yet exist.

The president's proposal is just the most recent attempt to expand schools of choice by policymakers and a growing army of advocacy groups.

If the analyst is an active member of an advocacy group, it would hardly be surprising that the aims of that group are strongly reflected in the policy paper.

Daniel Bernhard, executive director of the advocacy group Friends of Public Broadcasting, said he was optimistic about Tait's tenure, but needed to wait and see how she changes the CBC.

«At a time when upwards of 90 percent of voters in both major parties say money in politics is a problem, Connecticut Democrats are going backwards toward corruption and the era of John Rowland,» said Karen Hobert - Flynn, senior vice president of the advocacy group Common Cause.

However, the director of an advocacy group for victims of sexual abuse by priests called the steps announced by O'Malley insufficient and irresponsible, saying only one of the named priests was new to public information.

«As parents we believe that every child deserves an excellent public education,» said Natalie Beyer, a member of the Board of Education in Durham, North Carolina and a founder of the advocacy group Public Schools NC.

Stephen Jimenez — a survivor of child sexual abuse and the co-founder of advocacy group New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators — sits down with «In Focus» Host Cheryl Wills to talk about his story of abuse.

Stressing the importance of his appointment as co-Chair of Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons for SDGs, which was announced on 11th April, 2017, by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, President Akufo - Addo indicated that the appointment was not about him, but rather about Ghana as a mark of trust in her leaders.

«This is a disingenuous, media stunt pulled by the governor to attack the mayor when he is trying to build a national, progressive agenda,» said Jennifer Flynn, the executive director of the advocacy group VOCAL - NY, in a statement.

«Thanks to support from a diverse array of advocacy groups coupled with a strong endorsement by Governor Murphy and demand from consumers across the state, New Jersey is poised to become the seventeenth state to adopt community solar.

Now, plenty of advocacy groups try to get their members and employees active online, and the question of whether NOM's activities cross any lines seems pretty much up in the air, based on what's in the article itself.

A number of advocacy groups say there's an opportunity for lawmakers to act to address some of the harm that they say President Trump's policies are causing.

At the ceremony, which was also held to commemorate the President's appointment as co-Chair of the Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons by UN Secretary General, António Guterres, President Akufo - Addo charged the Committee to discharge its duties efficiently, and ensure that Ghana becomes a shining example for the implementation of the SDGs.

Toronto's Book Summit 16, at mid-month, was presented by the Book and Periodical Council and Humber College, and brought together several representatives of advocacy groups for a needed exchange on authors» prospects in a fast - changing business.

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.

There had been tensions between the founding labor unions of the WFP and its constellation of advocacy groups in recent years.

On the other hand, we have the true statement that the author of an important subjective policy report is an activist member of an advocacy group with a proven track record of promoting certain types of energy and opposing others.

«With zero competition, we are concerned about a «too big to fail» student loan company that has zero incentive to work for students, borrowers, and their families,» said Natalia Abrams, executive director of the advocacy group Student Debt Crisis, in an interview with CNBC.

«The Trump administration has made very clear that they've declared war on the immigrant community on all levels,» said Javier Valdez, co-executive director of the advocacy group Make the Road New York.

«If this is a good plan, it should go back to the Plan Commission,» said Eleanor Roemer, general counsel of the advocacy group Friends of the Parks, adding that there should be public meetings of neighborhood groups if the new story is built.

He should know: As founder and CEO of the advocacy group Common Sense Media, Steyer has devoted his life to «improving the media lives of kids and families.»

«The thing that we tend to forget sometimes is that people have lives,» Thomas Pyle, president of the advocacy group American Energy Alliance who was also tapped to head up the Energy Department transition team under Trump, said in a phone interview Monday.

«It creates a level of uncertainty and fear on the part of individuals whose children are covered, putting vulnerable families in a pretty scary position,» said Leni Preston, president of the advocacy group Consumer Health First.

«When a rent stabilized tenant moves out of an apartment, through the eviction bonus and preferential rent, which I have, the rent skyrockets,» said Cora Perceval, a member of advocacy group Tenants and Neighbors.

«If any educator... encouraged optouts, I think it's unethical,» Elia told teachers at the meeting of the advocacy group Educators4Excellence.

By comparison, New Yorkers United For Marriage, a coalition of advocacy groups formed at the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spent $ 1.8 million during the same reporting period.

The one - house budget resolutions being voted on Thursday by both chambers backs $ 45 million in funding for direct care workers, money that has been long sought for a campaign of advocacy groups pushing for the fundnig.

Worse, this dumbing down — always with the noblest of intentions, of course — carries the imprimatur of advocacy groups like Complete College America, headed by respected former Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education Stan Jones and generously supported by the likes of Gates, Carnegie, Helmsley, and Lumina.

Since then, a consortium of advocacy groups representing special education students, such as the Easter Seals and the National Center for Learning Disabilities, have pushed to end the allowance.

In last week's Communiqué, Antonucci's weekly newsletter, he tells us, «An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of NEA's financial disclosure report for the 2009 - 10 fiscal year reveals the national union contributed more than $ 13 million to a wide variety of advocacy groups and charities.

While CLASS is comprised of different sorts of advocacy groups — from InnerCity Struggle to Educators for Excellence — the broad - based coalition shares the same overarching mission: close the achievement gap in LAUSD.

Yevonne Brannon, chair of the advocacy group Public Schools First N.C., says state legislators should have waited until testing data was available for the schools before stripping any accountability measures from the law.

David Denenberg, director of the advocacy group Long Island Clean Air Water and Soil and a former Nassau County legislator who lives in Merrick, said his latest monthly water bill is $ 264.59, and 40 percent to 55 percent of that goes to pay property taxes.

The 2018 Legislative Session came and went, and Brian Pitts of the advocacy group Justice 2 Jesus was nowhere to be found.

Earlier this week a coalition of advocacy groups from across the political spectrum issued their own call to end the ethanol subsidy for refiners.

«You promised to help my community but that's not the truth,» said Alejandra Morales of the advocacy group La Voz Latina to the Lakewood Board of Education and board attorney Michael Inzelbuch.

It would have a huge effect on how we are producing food and how much food we are producing,» said Tom Colicchio, Top Chef judge and co-founder of the advocacy group Food Policy Action.

«Considering the decades - long culture of violence on Rikers, some of it perpetuated by staff, it's appalling that Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Ponte would invest in tools that have been shown to cause death,» Glenn Martin, of the advocacy group JustLeadershipUSA, told the New York Daily News in July.

In fact, «a P / E ratio over 25 for a large established company needs careful examination,» said Wright, who now serves on the board of the advocacy group he co-founded with his wife, Autism Speaks.