Sentences with phrase «of school advocacy groups»

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«The schools have reasonably concluded that they are quite likely to become the next target of OCR if they follow their religious convictions on these matters,» said Baylor, whose Christian legal advocacy group has advised some colleges on how to seek the exemptions.

But Mercer Bullard, professor of law at the University of Mississippi Law School and founder of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.»

Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland organized the March for Our Lives in DC, on March 24 with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Dr David Landrum, director of advocacy at the EA, said: «As we expected, the report shows how strongly faith groups, parents and others feel about proposals to register and regulate out - of - school settings, and in particular about the role of Ofsted.

As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

According to non-profit advocacy group Families Fighting Flu, a particularly onerous flu season like this one can result in as many as 30 percent of school - aged children getting sick.

You can ask people to serve as liaisons for individual schools (ideally, there would be a liaison at every school in the district) or as subcommittee members of your advocacy group.

«Sometimes, what looks good on paper doesn't work on the ground,» said Katherine Shek, a legislative analyst for the National School Boards Association, which praised Obama's commitment to school nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislSchool Boards Association, which praised Obama's commitment to school nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislschool nutrition but joined two other national education advocacy groups — the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislSchool Administrators and the Council of the Great City Schools — in opposing the legislation.

The study, by Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and co-founder of the advocacy group Challenge Success, analyzes the accuracy of four commonly encountered talking points relating to the AP program:

This type of advocacy can be taken into local hospitals, parenting groups, your local church or community ladies» groups, co-ops, and home school meetings, for some more examples.

A recent report from the Eastside advocacy group InnerCity Struggle says that 62 % of students in that area's schools don't have time to finish their meals.

Julia Bauscher, who is president of a national advocacy group called the School Nutrition Association, says administrators are under intense pressure to increase instruction time and boost standardized test scores.

Rumpler of the advocacy group and others have led campaigns to educate parents and school administrators about lead exposure risks, including the school - based initiative Get the Lead Out.

Increasingly, children tend to drink the majority of their milk at school and increasingly, the majority of the milk they drink is flavored — more than 70 percent of it according to the Milk Processor Education Program, the dairy industry's advocacy group.

Featured speakers include: Pennsylvania Representative Mike Vereb, James Weber, Michael Meyer, MS, ATC, LAT, of California University of Pennsylvania, Larry Cooper, MS, ATC, LAT of Penn Trafford High School and PATS Secondary School Committee Chair, Darren Sudman, Co-Founder of the heart advocacy group, Simon's Fund.

An new report from an education advocacy group accuses members of the state Senate's eight - member IDC of betraying traditional public schools in exchange for campaign donations from charter school supporters.

A coalition of New York public health, environment and healthy schools advocacy groups have banded together as they push state government leaders to take action.

School districts, in particular, should not expect anything approaching a repeat of this year's record $ 1.5 billion (6.5 percent) state aid increase — although advocacy groups will surely demand it.

State leaders and advocacy groups have accused the board of making decisions that favor private school students at the expense of public school children, many of whom are low - income, have disabilities or are immigrants who don't speak English.

After months of aggressive advocacy explicitly aimed at protecting and growing the state's charter sector, the group sent out a report detailing test scores at some of New York City's worst district schools.

New Yorkers for Students» Educational Rights, an education advocacy group, is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Board of Regents and state Education Commissioner John King, claiming the state has systematically shortgaged the public school system by failing failing to comply with an agreement that followed the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity Ruling of 2006.

In lieu of the massive rallies it has held biannually since 2013, the charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools will hold a modest lobby day on Jan. 20 in Albany.

At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York public health, environment, and healthy schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.

After hearing five hours of testimony on Wednesday, from school administrators, union leaders and advocacy groups, Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, said he will prepare a «three - pronged» action plan.

But sources close to the charter school advocacy sector said the group was no longer getting policy results from the costly rallies, all of which have sought to boost charter schools and critique de Blasio.

«It's an acquired taste,» said Nina Rees, C.E.O. of National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a Washington D.C. - based charter advocacy group.

A Connecticut - based advocacy group formed after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School held a rally Wednesday night in Newtown for the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

WAMC's Brian Shields spoke about bullet aid today with Nikki Jones of the Alliance for Quality Education, a school and education advocacy group in New York.

Today Bryan Lawrence, Board Chair of Families for Excellent Schools, put out a statement saying that the charter school advocacy group will be dissolving.

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.

James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center whose group is considered more moderate than advocacy groups that focus exclusively on large charter networks, praised the collaboration.

The students were aligned with «NYC Let Them Play,» an advocacy group that pushes for more sports programs in schools of color.

«It's about time that the communities wake up to understand that we are not trying to destroy Catholic schools or yeshivas,» said Mark Appel, founder of Voice of Justice, an advocacy group.

That followed a massive and showy rally put on by Families for Excellent Schools, the charter advocacy group, where Ms. Moskowitz, often seen as the face of charter schools, did notSchools, the charter advocacy group, where Ms. Moskowitz, often seen as the face of charter schools, did notschools, did not speak.

Students don't like the way SU shut down the Advocacy Center in June, consolidating sexual assault services in the school's counseling center and moving student support groups into the the Office of Health Promotion.

Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter advocacy group out of New York City, took umbrage with NYSUT's statement Tuesday, demanding it «immediately apologize» to the 120,000 charter school students across the state and their families for «calling them a distraction.»

Several advocacy groups argued in a letter to King that the reimbursement process laid out in the state budget is vague, allowing for the education department's interpretation of when school districts should get money to support new pre-K programs.

The Third Point C.E.O. serves on the board of StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter advocacy group whose board members also include former schools chancellor Joel Klein and Success Academy Charter Schools founder Eva Mosschools chancellor Joel Klein and Success Academy Charter Schools founder Eva MosSchools founder Eva Moskowitz.

«Donald Trump does not care about school shootings,» tweeted Cameron Kasky, a co-founder of the advocacy group Never Again MSD and a survivor of the Valentine's Day slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Flschool shootings,» tweeted Cameron Kasky, a co-founder of the advocacy group Never Again MSD and a survivor of the Valentine's Day slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in FlSchool in Florida.

In the wake of the closing of a Bronx schools contaminated with a toxic chemical, two advocacy groups and eight members of the City Council have written to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott demanding immediate testing of city school on leased property and a public disclosure of he rschools contaminated with a toxic chemical, two advocacy groups and eight members of the City Council have written to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott demanding immediate testing of city school on leased property and a public disclosure of he rSchools Chancellor Dennis Walcott demanding immediate testing of city school on leased property and a public disclosure of he results.

... The report was commissioned by the Alliance for Quality Education, an education research and advocacy group that is calling the current public school system «a tale of two systems,» echoing Bill de Blasio's «tale of two cities» campaign slogan.

The invitation extended to members of the BBOG, an advocacy group for the release of the missing school girls from -LSB-...]

The charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools, a frequent critic of the education policies advanced by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, was a plaintiff when the lawsuit was filed in Brooklyn federal court in April 2016.

«It's going to be up to all of us — legislators, regulators, insurance companies, patient advocacy groups, medical, nursing and dental schools, professional associations, foundations — to come together and enact these goals,» he says.

Some home - school advocacy groups have attempted to secure a federal law or Supreme Court ruling that would establish uniform national guidelines grounded in First or Fourteenth Amendment rights, but to date such efforts have failed (to the great relief of home - school advocacy groups that oppose this strategy).

The El Tejon Unified School District will end its Philosophy of Design course as part of a legal settlement with 11 parents and an advocacy group.

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

The report from the Washington - based advocacy group Pre-K Now, released this month and presented at a conference here, shows that states are increasingly seeking to support their pre-K programs through school funding formulas embedded in state law, which provide the most stable source of revenue and the greatest potential for growth.

This mind - set has prompted advocacy groups like the Rural School and Community Trust to seek both small - district subsidies and protection against loss of enrollment to charters.