Sentences with phrase «organization public agenda»

With ongoing economic challenges facing the field of higher education, the policy research organization Public Agenda has taken a critical look at university leadership across the country.

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«Particularly ominous,» says Mr. Rich in tones most ominous, «are the many ideological and financial links between the PK hierarchy and organizations that are pushing the full religious - right agenda of outlawing abortion, demonizing homosexuals, and bringing prayer and the teaching of creationism to public schools.»

Within many denominations there are growing numbers of organizations dedicated to pressing rival agendas on both religious issues and public affairs.

NYSUT and other public - sector labor organizations have been deeply unhappy with Cuomo's fiscal agenda this year, and the union - backed Working Families Party has gone as far as to suggest it could endorse someone else for governor this fall.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

The organizations have banded together to offer a budgetary agenda for the city and state, and have planned public housing workshops in Albany during February and March.

Albany, New York — StudentsFirstNY, a statewide education reform advocacy organization, today was joined by public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity Agenda.

The organization said that, «As a government presumably pursuing a change - agenda, Buhari should do things differently from the former Jonathan administration including by proactively engaging the Nigerian people in an honest conversation about the fight against Boko Haram and the use of the public funds so far invested to prosecute it.»

Richard Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City — a non-partisan non-profit organization focused on criminal justice and public safety policies and practices — Richard Aborn draws on his wide experience in criminal prosecution and litigation — policy development — management and government affairs to promote the Crime Commission's agenda of making...

«The whole thing of creating an organization to promote the governor's agenda is unique,» said Blair Horner, a longtime state government watchdog for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The American Lung Association and other public health and environmental organizations recommend these steps as the core of a clean air agenda for the nation:

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

In December, a New York - based nonprofit research organization called Public Agenda released a report about trustee engagement that concluded that most board members believe their role is to select and support a good institutional leader rather than directly question administrators or initiate reform.

(New York, NY)-- Hundreds of public school parents joined education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and other advocates on the steps of City Hall today to urge new Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to hit the reset button on Mayor Bill de Blasio's failing education agenda.

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Running on Empty pulls together information gathered from studies and polls from nonpartisan organizations such as Public Agenda and the Associated Press.

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This organization was founded on the pretext of bolstering the performance of Bridgeport public schools, but operated under a hidden agenda shared only by a clandestine subgroup comprised of Meghan Lowney, Nate Snow and Robert Francis, and blessed by the Mayor.

But despite teacher unions giving more than $ 10 million dollars to the DGA over the past decade, the organization whose role it is to elect Democratic governors has remained committed to an education reform agenda that is actively and intentionally undermining teachers, the teaching profession and the nation's public education system.

The following chart highlights the Step Right Up, Buy Public Policy organizations that have lobbied on behalf of Malloy's charter school and anti-public education agenda.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

Hundreds of public school parents joined education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and other advocates on the steps of City Hall today to urge new Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to hit the reset button on Mayor Bill de Blasio's failing education agenda.

The Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) purports to be a non-partisan, 501 (c)(3)(non-profit) organization, but their agenda is extremely political and their funds are being used to undermine Connecticut's public schools and unfairly label Connecticut's public school students and teachers.

Public Agenda, a public opinion research organization based in New York City, found in 2007 that given the choice between a more supportive principal or a significantly higher salary, over 70 percent of first - year teachers would prefer a more supportive prinPublic Agenda, a public opinion research organization based in New York City, found in 2007 that given the choice between a more supportive principal or a significantly higher salary, over 70 percent of first - year teachers would prefer a more supportive prinpublic opinion research organization based in New York City, found in 2007 that given the choice between a more supportive principal or a significantly higher salary, over 70 percent of first - year teachers would prefer a more supportive principal.

Although the three organizations are funded primarily from local taxpayer funds and are supposed to be advocating for local public schools, all three have spent the last three years lobbying for Governor Malloy's restrictive, centralized and top - down Corporate Education Reform Industry agenda... An agenda that undermines local control of education, seeks to limit the rights of parents, denigrates teachers and turns Connecticut's public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories.

After the organizations reached consensus on a far - reaching agenda to support school diversity, we continued to organize, to write policy briefs and «talking points» and make public presentations.

The KIDS COUNT organizations in each state advocate to prioritize children, particularly those from low - income families, on the public agenda.

Second, this uprising of local communities against state capitals, the nation's capital and various muscular organizations (e.g., the Business Roundtable, the Chamber of Commerce, teachers unions, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) demonstrates that although the public agenda is malleable, a sturdy portion of the public is not.

«By camouflaging their true agenda and encouraging the public to confuse animals rights philosophy with the public's own belief in principles of animal welfare, they have organized a powerful, highly sophisticated, media - savvy international movement designed to cash in on the fear, concern and ignorance people have regarding animals and animal issues,» says Patti Strand, AKC Board Member and executive director of the National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA), an animal welfare organization that supports responsible use of animals and works to protect our rights to own and breed dogs.

Thus, the old attitude — we produce science and it is up to the public to figure out how to use it — has reappeared at NCAR and the NSF unit that supports it at a time when most other science organizations around the globe have sought to incorporate social science into their research and application agendas.

On a more serious note, Brunelli's cover note also makes very clear that, far from the «transparent,» «educational» organization ALEC now claims to be, ALEC told its funders a different story: «One hundred percent of our energy and effort goes into winning the public policy debate and championing a free market economy... [elipses original] a pro-business, pro-growth, pro-freedom, limited government agenda.»

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) publishes SourceWatch, this collaborative, specialized encyclopedia of the people, organizations, and issues shaping the public agenda.

The report shows that Exxon contributed to a variety of interesting organizations, including the Center for Environmental Education and the Public Agenda Foundation.

In a show of force today, individuals from diverse organizations representing youth, advocates, Indigenous peoples & frontlines communities, policy makers and more announced their platform — «The U.S. People's Delegation» to counter the Trump Administration's fossil fuel agenda and to hold US states, cities, businesses, and the public accountable to commitments to climate action.

If the implication here is that making donations is simply a cost of doing business for organizations that wish to advance the public interest and / or the interests of their constituents in relation to the legislative agenda, what message is being sent to the public about our legal system?

For the last 20 odd years women organizations in collusion with govts basking on popular vote agenda and misleading everybody (the Indian public and the rest of world) about this dowry phenomenon.

The Ohio Practitioners» Network for Fathers and Families (OPNFF) formed in 2003 to advance a fatherhood and family agenda through a partnership with public agencies, grassroots faith and community organizations, and local and state government entities.