Sentences with phrase «policy organization called»

No, a few pages on there is a pitch for «green jobs» and a policy organization called «Smart Growth America», which presumably doesn't advocate that the only smart growth rate for America is a negative growth rate.

The 13 - teacher policy team, members of a teacher - led education policy organization called Educators 4 Excellence (E4E - LA), spent the past several months researching the most effective way to improve the feedback and support teachers receive to improve their performance in the classroom.

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Breitbart is known for supporting what some refer to as the «alt right» movement in the United States, a loose affiliation of politically conservative groups that include overtly racist organizations such as Richard Spencer's National Policy Institute, which advocates for something it calls «white nationalism.»

According to a number of news reports, users who have been banned include Pax Dickinson — a former Business Insider executive who was let go for making racist comments — as well as Richard Spencer, who runs a so - called «alt - right» organization called the National Policy Institute, which advocates for racial separation.

Every page critical of Israeli policies gets hacked by an organization called the «JIDF» and then later gets labelled as antisemitic.

So let me get this straight... religious organizations fight for their «right» to run schools like BYU that virtually write discrimination into their so - called «honor code», but when a school has a policy that forces them to NOT discriminate, that's when they have a problem?

Jeff Halper, an Israeli anthropologist who heads a nonprofit organization called the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, calls Israeli policy a «matrix of control.»

The organization Human Rights Watch calls America's family policy failure «a human rights concern.»

A statement from Conflicts of Interest Coalition, endorsed by 145 national, regional and international organizations, calls for the development of a Code of Conduct in public policy decision - making to safeguard against conflicts of interest.

The so - called «unattended display» policy discussed by the park board recently would allow such displays, sponsored by private citizens or organizations, at two Arlington Heights parks.

The Fund's resolution announced this week calls on Aetna's board of directors to amend Aetna's political contributions policy to disclose all direct and indirect payments to tax - exempt organizations it believes were used for a political purpose.

In a statement released Wednesday, a range of organizations — Common Cause / NY, Citizens Union, the Citizen Budget Commission, the Fiscal Policy Institute, the League of Women Voters, Reinvent Albany, and NYPIRG — reiterated their calls for stronger safeguards and checks on contracting and procurement.

The organization passed a resolution calling on the state to change its policy.

After accepting $ 5,000 in donations from the National Rifle Association between 2006 and 2012, Democratic Rep. Brian Higgins announced on Facebook that he now plans to donate that money to local and national organizations dedicated to fighting for what he called «common sense gun safety policies.»

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

The organization took up the cause and passed a resolution calling on the state to change its policy.

Doctors of the World, the organization that provides medical care in the camp, has called for physician volunteers, so I find myself in their headquarters in New York City, signing an insurance policy for, among other things, kidnapping, ransom, and extortion.

In a subsequent exchange, Senator Benjamin Cardin (D — MD) said that Trump's executive order yesterday reinstating the so - called Mexico City policy, which bans U.S. funding for foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortions in the context of family planning, could also apply to maternal health organizations and others working to stop the Zika virus and HIV / AIDs.

A call to action issued today by AAAS and a broad coalition of CEOs and other organizations urges Congress to enact policies and make investments that ensure the United States remains the global innovation leader.

The audience gave Clinton several standing ovations, and policy leaders, HIV / AIDS advocates, and nongovernmental organizations that focus on the epidemic praised what several called her «bold» vision about applying recent prevention advances.

Though the verdict was based on a technicality related to the scope of the term «product of nature,» Plomer argues the verdict «calls into question patent policies which put the rights of organizations motivated by the pursuit of profit above the public interest and rights to equal and free access to open science.»

Dr. Miller, who is a past member of the APS governing Council and who has held leadership positions for six scientific journals and provides peer review for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other health - related research organization, closes the editorial with a call for other scientific journals to adopt similar policies.

While retired, because of my ongoing interest in the importance of credible, sound science driving public policy and regulation of food safety related issues, I joined with other academic colleagues and helped to found a 501c3 non-profit organization we call Academics Review.

Called Strategic Management of Human Capital, the organization was unveiled June 11 by Allan R. Odden, the director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, or CPRE, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and James A. Kelly, the founding president of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

A task force of Ohio foundations and other grantmaking organizations is calling on state leaders to improve public education by adopting five broad, ambitious policy priorities.

At a recent panel discussion held at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by the organization, Broader, Bolder Approach to Education (BBA), panelists called for policy reforms to address the impact of poverty on schools, students, families, and neighborhoods.

He cited the combined immersion in education, organization, leadership, and policy practice, calling it «unique and critical to the kinds of leadership training required today.»

Ama Nyamekye, the executive director of Educators 4 Excellence Los Angeles, an organization that advocates for teachers to take a more active role in shaping education policies, wrote an op - ed in last week's Huffington Post LA calling for a more «courageous» LAUSD School Board: «Our school board needs to get to work tackling a tall order of...

Grant attacked government support for schools run by religious organizations and called for the defense of public education «unmixed with sectarian, pagan or atheistical dogmas,» according to Mark Edward DeForrest, writing in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

August 13, 2014 (Minneapolis)-- Educators 4 Excellence - MN, a teacher - led organization that seeks to elevate the voices of teachers in policy discussions, called for four key changes to Minnesota's decade - long implementation of Quality Compensation (Q Comp).

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

«What we don't want to do is simply put a tablet on top of a textbook and call the job done,» said Phillip Lovell, vice president for policy and advocacy at the Alliance for Excellent Education, an advocacy organization that supported increased funding for E-rate.

If your organization is interested in endorsing the well - rounded recommendations, please contact ASCD's policy unit by e-mail or call 1-703-575-5604.

Online learning can call into question our institutions» beliefs, structures, policies, and, even more, the fundamental mission of the organization.

June 3, 2014 (Los Angeles)-- Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles, a teacher - led organization that seeks to elevate the voices of teachers in policy discussions, called for bolder investments in teacher retention and school climate.

These groups are often called «teacher - voice organizations,» and in many cases they are established with the aim of giving practicing teachers direct access to influence the policies that affect their practice.

Sixty - one additional organizations signed onto the «call for action» policy paper.

The California law was based on a proposal from Ben Austin, a policy consultant for a small non-profit education organization called Green Dot Public Schools, which manages charter schools for the city of Los Angeles.

The following analysis of teacher - voice organizations and fellowships in the context of what some are calling a teacher - voice movement uses qualitative data collected through interviews with education - policy scholars and academics, leaders of teacher - voice organizations and fellowships, teachers - union officials, and teachers.

This call to action — already supported by a diverse group of education organizations — must ensure that today's policy makers, legislators, and 2016 presidential candidates prioritize the elevation of the teaching profession.

Similarly, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), which is arguably the leading international educator organization comprised of 125,000 members in more than 130 nations, also recently released a policy brief that also calls for a two - year moratorium on high stakes use of state tests — including their use for educator evaluations.

June 11, 2014 (Bridgeport, CT)-- Educators 4 Excellence, a national teacher - led organization that seeks to elevate the voices of teachers in education policy discussions, formally launched its new chapter in Connecticut Wednesday with a kick - off event in Bridgeport and a call for sweeping changes to existing professional development.

Our critical partner in beginning stakeholder engagement last summer was an organization called New Mexico First, a nonpartisan public policy organization that was founded by the late Senator Pete Domenici and former Senator Jeff Bingaman in 1986.

Two organizations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and non-profit policy advocates Public Knowledge, have submitted their recommendations to the US Copyright Office to establish fair use guidelines for so - called orphan works, or any work whose rights holders can not be identified through extensive means.

Gibraltar Trade Center recently announced a new «puppy friendly» policy that calls for allowing rescue organizations to sell puppies and kittens inside the facility in a move that complies with Humane Society of the United States practices.

This Thanksgiving she found one at the Humane Society of Seminole County, but didn't take it home.Brown was offended by the organization's adoption policy, which calls for fenced yards and, in most cases, a house instead of an apartment or condominium.

The organization has also been teaching the community how TNR for community cats is good public policy, as it effectively and humanely manages the community cat population, reduces shelter intake and «euthanasia» numbers, and reduces calls to animal control agencies, saving taxpayer dollars in the process.

* Providing lifetime care for 300 animals * Conducts an intensive adoption program for homeless dogs and cats * Works directly with county animal services in saving lives of animals * Manages a feral cat colony providing a tree house, food, & daily care * Conducts a public feral cat trapping program under the trap / neuter / return policy * Networks with 42 organizations across the U. S. in placing wild & exotic animals * Distributes educational materials * Conducts peaceful public demonstrations to call attention to animal exploitation * Makes presentations at public hearing and forums * Promoting A Cruelty - Free Lifestyle by sponsoring public events and education * Conducts telephone and letter - writing campaigns

The plan calls for the agency to begin immediately increasing its support for arts organizations in those neighborhoods, including those on city - owned property, which already receive significant funding from the city in exchange for having a free or reduced - cost admissions policy.