Sentences with phrase «policy director for»
Janis Bowdler, the housing policy director for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), will also appear on the show.
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The idea behind the conference is to provide mayors with ideas that can easily be implemented, said Jason Wiens, policy director for the Kauffman Foundation.
Previously, she served as: senior policy advisor to the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, policy director for March of Dimes, and health director at the Children's Defense Fund.
Sacha also was the Policy Director for First 5 LA and the Child Welfare Policy Director for the Association of Community Human Services Agencies (ACHSA) in Los Angeles County.
We hope to see further investment in such resources in the near future, to be sure all of New York's children thrive now and in the future,» said Betty Holcomb, Policy Director for the Center for Children's Initiatives.
«Our investigatory team is now looking to see if we can identify other similar clusters engaged in coordinated activity around the Brexit referendum that was not identified previously,» Simon Milner, Facebook's policy director for Britain, wrote in a letter to Parliament.
Simon Milner, Facebook's policy director for the U.K., wrote to Collins in January to say that the company was looking into the matter.
It quoted Simon Milner, a policy director for Facebook in Britain, who said: «It is against the law for anyone to distribute images of child exploitation.
Jim DiPeso, policy director for the newly christened ConservAmerica, says, «We thought it was important to hammer home the connections between conservation and traditional conservative values.»
«Developing countries are a varied group at this stage, and there is a growing frustration about the inability to move forward from some of these countries,» said Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, who attended the Warsaw meetings.
«Working lands, like those managed by SFI - certified companies, represent some of the best opportunities for conserving forest bird breeding habitat,» says Jim Shallow, conservation and policy director for Audubon Vermont.
Still, David Doniger, the policy director for climate and clean air at the Natural Resources Defense Council, described the new database as a «very powerful small - d democratic tool.»
«One of the most upsetting things about this proposal is that the spotted - owl wars of the»90s had simmered down quite a bit, and a kind of balance had been reached regarding logging and old growth forests,» says Kieran Suckling, policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity.
«As it stands, without a full and proper review and analysis of the environmental impact of this pipeline, MDE is failing to uphold its responsibility to all Marylanders,» said David Smedick, Policy Director for the Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club.
Politically conservative educators who reject evidence for global warming are increasingly seeking out supplemental materials that present the skeptical view, said Mark McCaffrey, programs and policy director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a science advocacy group.
If Republicans managed to do enough to undermine the president's climate action plan, said David Doniger, the policy director for the NRDC's climate and clean air program, the entire effort could collapse.
Before joining NRDC, she served as the U.S. policy director for the Pembina Institute, a Canadian clean energy think tank.
The increased RES would bring not just more clean energy but more jobs, said J. Drake Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh Energy, which publishes Midwest Energy News and also advocated for the original 2007 law.
Bandon Smithwood was SEIA's director of California policy throughout the DER proceedings and recently became policy director for the Coalition for Community Solar Access.
«With so much misinformation» put out by the measure's opponents, «we don't think we had a real debate,» said James Clift, policy director for the Michigan Environmental Council.
«The record rise in food prices is a grave reminder that until we act on the underlying causes of hunger and climate change, we will find ourselves perpetually on the knife's edge of disaster,» said Gawain Kripke, policy director for the organization.
Dr. Johan C.I. Kuylenstierna, PhD (air pollution), BSc (Biology) is Policy Director for SEI.
Prior to working in the California Legislature, Ms. Alvord served as a gubernatorial appointee directing state pesticide legislation and regulations, and previously was policy director for a California non-profit promoting sustainable agriculture.
Mark S. McCaffrey, programs and policy director for the group, which is in Oakland, Calif., said the Heartland documents revealed that «they continue to promote confusion, doubt and debate where there really is none.»
Andrew Gohn is the eastern regional policy director for the American Wind Energy Association, a wind energy advocacy group.
Molly Rauch is public health policy director for Moms Clean Air Force.
Its current president, Neera Tanden, was policy director for the 2008 Clinton campaign.)
Those emissions are only going to increase as Canada ramps up to the 5 million barrels per day already approved for extraction, said Simon Dyer, policy director for the Pembina Institute, a Canadian non-profit focused on developing sustainable energy solutions.
«We appreciate NYPSC addressing near term uncertainty in the market by passing this stop - gap measure, and we urge the Commission to move quickly in establishing a more permanent solution until the new system [VDER Phase Two] is set,» said Brandon Smithwood, Policy Director for the Coalition for Community Solar Access.
Michele wanted to get both sides of the global warming debate represented in the discussion, so her first guest was Jay Drake - Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh -LSB-...]
Gawain Kripke, policy director for Oxfam America, said, «The record rise in food prices is a grave reminder that until we act on the underlying causes of hunger and climate change, we will find ourselves perpetually on the knife's edge of disaster.»
«A Climate Plan Businesses Can Like» — an Op - Ed article by Jody Freeman, a professor at Harvard Law School, and Kate Konschnik, the policy director for the environmental law program there.
Insert, Oct. 5, 9:14 p.m. William Hare, who was a lead author on the I.P.C.C. report on emissions mitigation in 2007 and climate policy director for Greenpeace International, also has posted a critique of the Victor / Kennel piece.
She served as the early childhood policy director for the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, and played an instrumental role in the development and successful passage of early childhood legislation in 2006 that established a $ 60 million early childhood endowment, funded through a public and private partnership.
«The Obama action on the Common Core really transformed it from a state - led initiative we could all agree on to something that was much more politically charged,» said Michael Brickman, the national policy director for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank that supports the standards.
«I think you need to wake up the university presidents to the fact that schools of education can't be A.T.M.s for the rest of the college or university,» said Charles Barone, policy director for Democrats for Education Reform, a group that pushes for test - based teacher evaluations and has battled teachers» unions.
«From what we've heard, the district responded to the individual situations, which I think is excellent,» said Vanessa Hernandez, the youth policy director for the ACLU.
«These results continue a trend of progress both in raising achievements and closing gaps,» said Daria Hall, K - 12 policy director for the think tank Education Trust.
Lisa Berdie is the policy director for A + Colorado.
Jim Bartholomew is education policy director for the Minnesota Business Partnership, which supported the new law, and until recently was a member of the teaching board.
Maine gives laptops to every middle school student in the state, at a cost of less than one percent of the state education budget, according to Jeff Mao, learning technology policy director for the state.
«We are going to see a shift toward teachers that are non-tenured in the future,» says Stafford Palmieri, an architect of the Louisiana law and policy director for Governor Bobby Jindal.
He also held senior positions in five presidential campaigns: policy director for Michael Dukakis (1988); and then senior policy adviser for Al Gore (2000), Howard Dean (2004), Barack Obama (2008), and Hillary Clinton (2016).
Jeff Gagne, policy director for the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta, said small but steady gains like those in Louisiana, including the state's high school graduation rate, are the way to go.
Jason Bedrick, policy director for the school choice advocacy group EdChoice, said teachers groups are pitting educators against families for political gain.
«The bad news is we're not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,» said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida - based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.
Josh Crosson currently serves as the senior policy director for Ed Allies — a local education advocacy nonprofit that improves public policy through the Minnesota Legislature, the Governor's office, and relevant government agencies.
Edgar also worked as the policy director for Californians for Justice where he partnered with organizations like California Teachers Association, Ed - Trust West, and the American Civil Liberties Union to make state Local Control Funding Formula regulations more inclusive of the community.
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Michael Brickman is the national policy director for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he is a commentator on education - reform issues and a regular contributor to the Flypaper blog and other publications.