Sentences with phrase «of advocacy groups representing»

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.

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CNN: Expectations high for first Hindu member of Congress Just days after Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was sworn in as the first Hindu member of Congress, Hindu American advocacy groups made it clear that they hope Gabbard will help represent the nation's wider Hindu community, on top of her Hawaiian constituents.

Her organization, an advocacy group representing a growing number of nontheistic Americans, recently conducted a silent poll of members of Congress about their faith and personal beliefs.

In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, it is in our interest to farm responsibly with the best science available,» said John De Luca, president and CEO of the Wine Institute, a public policy advocacy group, representing more than 600 California wineries.

Wine Institute is a public policy advocacy group, representing more than 975 California wineries and affiliated businesses responsible for 85 percent of the nation's wine production.

Hoylman's Democratic colleague Daniel Squadron, who represents Lower Manhattan and portions of Brooklyn and is the lead sponsor on GENDA, said the group's decision «makes me concerned about advocacy on the many outstanding critical LGBT issues moving forward,» mentioning specifically that bill, Hoylman's «conversion therapy» measure, and statewide social service spending.

Representing a smattering of different environmental advocacy groups from around the state, about 250 protesters held signs calling on officials and lawmakers to prohibit any more natural gas pipelines being built in New York, to stop the construction of a proposed liquid natural gas storage facility next to Seneca Lake, and to shift the state's energy production to greener fuel sources....

The commission also should represent the interests of the gamut of other people and groups that interact with the criminal justice system — prosecutors, judges, police and correction officers, people in prison, defense attorneys, advocacy groups, think tanks, victims» rights organizations, and academics.

Plock's situation — teaching to share his expertise rather than for the extra income — represents only a very small percentage of the adjunct population, although it is more common in the sciences than the humanities, says Matt Williams, vice president of the New Faculty Majority, an advocacy group for non-tenure-track faculty.

«The 64 [current and past] CTSA hubs include the nation's most experienced and creative senior investigators, and very large investments and commitments from their host institutions,» explains Harry Selker, leader of the CTSAs at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and chair of the Clinical Research Forum, an advocacy group in Washington, D.C., that represents the CTSAs.

As Minikel explained on CureFFI.org, the registry represents an effort by a coalition of prion disease advocacy groups — the CJD Foundation, the CJD International Support Alliance, and the Prion Alliance — to fill an unmet need: a centralized way for those who want to participate in prion disease research to make their voices heard, and in the process, support clinical research on these conditions:

«ViaCyte has a history of working with patient advocacy groups, such as JDRF and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and Beyond Type 1 represents a new and exciting platform to help connect patients to product development,» said Paul Laikind, PhD, President and CEO of ViaCyte.

«Cutting back on alcohol represents a real step that a breast cancer survivor can take to reduce her risk of recurrence,» says Marisa Weiss, MD, the president and founder of the advocacy group Breastcancer.org.

She co-founded the body - positive advocacy campaign @allwomanproject to show the industry that a group of women from different ethnicities, ages, and sizes can be successfully represented in the same ad campaign.

More than 800 people attended the conference for the advocacy group that represents 61 of the nation's largest urban school systems.

Among those helping schools deliver those messages is Action for Healthy Kids, an advocacy group representing multiple disciplines, united in the mission of improving children's health.

The president of Washington's largest teachers» union said the effort had one other positive result: fruitful collaboration between the governor, the Legislature, parents, other education advocacy groups, local school districts and the Washington Education Association, representing teachers.

At the public hearing conducted by our Board on the proposed rule, there was testimony from fifty witnesses, the large majority in opposition, primarily representing the teachers» unions and advocacy groups, colleges of education, and assorted education activists.

But leaders of Voices for Utah's Children, another children's advocacy group, believe the data now represent a snapshot in time more so than an ongoing positive trend, thanks to potentially sweeping changes to health care in the United States.

More than 50 African American social advocacy groups, including the Black Lives Matter movement has joined the NAACP, stating that charter schools represent a «systemic attack» on communities of color.

But, under a new president and board of directors, the advocacy group representing parents and teachers has decided not to participate going forward.

«[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.

«The only thing these grades tell us is where our poor children go to school and where our rich children go to school,» said Lynn Shoemaker, a 23 - year veteran public school teacher representing the advocacy group Public Schools First NC at a press conference held by Senate Democrats after the launch of the A-F school grades.

This group — all of them surely members of any «Who's Who» list of digital content providers — and the organizations they represent will be a powerful voice for library eBook advocacy.

Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC), a leading companion animal advocacy group representing pet owners and pet care professionals, called for federal and state authorities to address the practices of 86 rescues and shelters uncovered by a Washington Post report.

However, the more invested in «humane agriculture» the target of the campaign is, the more likely they are able to distinguish between animal advocacy groups and will not assume that the actions of the campaign represent the opinions of all animal advocates.

ALEXANDRIA, VA — A leading companion animal advocacy group representing pet owners and pet care professionals called for federal and state authorities to address the practices of 86 rescues and shelters uncovered by a Washington Post report.

«A leading companion animal advocacy group representing pet owners and pet care professionals called for federal and state authorities to address the practices of 86 rescues and shelters uncovered by a Washington Post report.»

* Advocacy groups that favor «wind farm» developments, suppliers of wind turbines and other facilities, construction companies that build the facilities, and lawyers and PR groups who represent the developers.

Counting only leaks that utilities have documented, it would represent about $ 40 million worth of gas, according to an analysis by the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based legal advocacy group.

«The things in these current proposals don't fit squarely or neatly within the congressional authority and they go way beyond where I think anyone should want Congress to tread,» O'Malley said at the conference, hosted by the advocacy group Innovation Alliance, which represents the interests of patent owners.

In this capacity, she has represented the consortium before international environmental bodies and has also periodically coordinated efforts of the consortium with patient advocacy groups.

Our tax - exempt organizations team represents institutions of all kinds — corporate and family foundations, colleges and universities, hospitals, trade associations, religious organizations, governmental entities, cultural organizations, advocacy groups, and many others — in achieving their objectives.

So the Storay Advocacy Group, P.A. was actually established to provide affordable and quality legal services, it was my intent and my heart's desire to meet the needs of those individuals who are representing themselves in family law matters, civil cases, et cetera.

Perkin Coie's Insurance Coverage group has significant experience representing policyholders in all types of dispute resolution proceedings, from pre-litigation negotiation and advocacy to litigation in both state and federal courts throughout the United States to domestic and international arbitrations.

In an effort to highlight the needs of young children in Newark and statewide, ACNJ was recently selected to represent New Jersey in the national Think Babies campaign, supported by the early childhood advocacy group ZERO TO THREE.

«The challenge is to keep tools in the hands of local governments to deal with pockets of poverty on a meaningful scale while ensuring governments exercise the awesome powers of eminent domain responsibly,» says Roger Platt, senior vice president and counsel of The Real Estate Roundtable, a Washington, D.C. — based advocacy group representing mainly owners and developers.