Sentences with phrase «public interest groups working»

NAR has joined a coalition of businesses and public interest groups working to preserve Open Internet rules.

The National Association of REALTORS ® (NAR) has joined with a coalition of businesses and public interest groups working to preserve rules surrounding the open internet, also known as net neutrality.

NAR has joined a coalition of businesses and public interest groups working to preserve Open Internet rules — also known as network neutrality.

IBFAN — the International Baby Food Action Network — consists of over 27o public interest groups working in 168 countries to promote the health and well - being of infants, young children and their mothers through the protection, promotion and support of optimal infant and young child feeding practices.

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The Career & Technical Education (CTE) Working Group is focused on creating public dialogue around programs of study pathways for students interested in entering the STEM workforce.

Engagement with stakeholders — including patent holders, research institutions, consumer advocates, public interest groups, and the general public — is also an important part of our work moving forward.

This requires local and national coalitions of public interest groups to organize to demand that the existing regulatory processes work to protect the public rather than the industry they are supposed to regulate.

Environmental Working Group Center For Science in the Public Interest Organic Trade Association

He headed to Chicago and worked for several nonprofit organizations, including the Illinois Public Interest Research Group and the Nkrumah Washington Community Learning Center, in the heart of gang territory.

I received invaluable assistance from the Center for Science in the Public Interest in getting the letter circulated, and it has now been signed by 29 organizations and individuals, including: CSPI; the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity; the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation; the Environmental Working Group; Healthy, Child, Healthy World; The Healthy Schools Campaign; Chef Ann Cooper; Dr. Yoni Freedhoff and many more.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

Here to discuss what the Democrat had to say is WAMC's Alan Chartock, Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group and Morgan Hook — a communications specialist who has worked for SUNY and Governors David Paterson and Eliot Spitzer.

Andy Morrison, a consumer advocate who worked on the report from the New York Public Interest Research Group, says the practice is unfair to minorities and low - income workers.

«It's sort of amazing that every time there are important positions in government they just happen to turn up with former staff of the governor,» said Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group (who once worked for Cuomo).

«As many of you know, I ran a public interest group that worked for many of the Giuliani policies that turned this city around — like the crackdown on porn shops and squeegee men — and I don't want to turn back the clock.»

Citing the close race against Avella, the former head of public interest group Center for Community Interest said he hoped to draw on his years working alongside former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to restore honesty throughout the dinterest group Center for Community Interest said he hoped to draw on his years working alongside former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to restore honesty throughout the dInterest said he hoped to draw on his years working alongside former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to restore honesty throughout the district.

A campaign backed by CUNY's faculty union, the Working Families Party, New York Public Interest Research Group and others is calling on the state to provide $ 2 billion for CUNY, with $ 784 million per year going to replace tuition not currently covered by federal aid at the system's two - and four - year colleges.

The county executive and his administration had been working with legislators and immigration groups to try and craft a bill that didn't run afoul of federal law, local law enforcement objections and the interest of public safety.

Russ Haven, general counsel for the New York Public Interest Research Group, an Albany - based government watchdog group, said in an email Saturday that such financial disclosure gives the public useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of intPublic Interest Research Group, an Albany - based government watchdog group, said in an email Saturday that such financial disclosure gives the public useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of iInterest Research Group, an Albany - based government watchdog group, said in an email Saturday that such financial disclosure gives the public useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of inteGroup, an Albany - based government watchdog group, said in an email Saturday that such financial disclosure gives the public useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of integroup, said in an email Saturday that such financial disclosure gives the public useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of intpublic useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of interestinterest.

«The thing that's worked well when you have ethics boils down to two words — Preet Bharara,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

In a letter to Cuomo and Senate and Assembly leaders, the groups write that the review panel should be conducted in a transparent process and put the public interest first in conducting its work.

Blair Horner, the legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, who briefly worked for the attorney general's office under Mr. Cuomo, called the revelations «unsettling, given what has happened in the Paterson administration.»

«There is no correlation between a credit score and the ability to work,» insisted Armando Chapelliquen, Campaign Organizer with the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).

«Big money playing a big role now at all levels of elections is really sort of the way it works now in America,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said the lack of detail on JCOPE's decision - making process «underscores that JCOPE has a responsibility to tell the public how it workePublic Interest Research Group, said the lack of detail on JCOPE's decision - making process «underscores that JCOPE has a responsibility to tell the public how it workepublic how it worked out.

New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a collation of labor unions, community organizations, and the variety of public interest groups such as Citizens Action of New York.

Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, who has repeatedly criticized what he sees as a lack of independence for JCOPE, said that Sugarman's BOE work will inevitably be judged by her connections to the governor, whether those connections motivate her or not.

«He's talking about an immense expansion of work, with no new resources,» Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said of the governor's proposals.

As long as Labour continues to be the special interest group of public sector professionals it will never be able to represent the interests of the «skilled working class, the managerial and professional grades» who work in the private sector.

CIRM's credibility with the public would also be helped by including on ICOC and various working groups more scientists and patient advocates without ties to institutions funded by CIRM, and by taking other measures to address potential conflicts of interest, the panel said.

In addition, the Centre for Science in The Public Interest and the Environmental Working Group both caution consumers against consuming this potentially harmful preservative.

Thanks to the underhanded work of industry front groups like the Center for Science in the «Public Interest», in the 1980s Americans had partially hydrogenated oils foisted on them as health foods.

For decades, public - interest lawyers have worked for nonprofit groups on behalf of families with disabled children.

In her role as Senior Program Officer of Education, Bonnie collaborates regularly with the public school system, early childhood educators, local colleges, and the education non-profit community, and she represents the Foundation's education interests on a multitude of local boards and work groups.

In the Public Interest — a perfect partner for AFT — is a project of The Partnership for Working Families (PWF), which is an ACORN - like group that hates anything capitalist and is a card - carrying member of the «Occupy Wall Street» movement, whose raison d'être is to bash «one percenters.»

Allegheny Intermediate Unit (aiu3) Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE) American Alliance of Museums (AAM) American Association of Classified School Employees (AACSE) American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) American Association of School Administrators (AASA) American Association of State Colleges & Universities (AASCU) American Council on Education (ACE) American Counseling Association (ACA) American Educational Research Association (AERA) American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) American Federation of Teachers (AFT) American Institutes for Research (AIR) American Library Association (ALA) American Medical Student Association (AMSA) American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) American School Counselor Association (ASCA) American Speech - Language - Hearing Association (ASHA) American Student Association of Community Colleges (ASACC) Apollo Education Group ASCD Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE) Association of American Publishers (AAP) Association of American Universities (AAU) Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities (AJCU) Association of Public and Land - grant Universities (APLU) Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO) Boston University (BU) California Department of Education (CDE) California State University Office of Federal Relations (CSU) Center on Law and Social Policy (CLASP) Citizen Schools Coalition for Higher Education Assistance Organizations (COHEAO) Consortium for School Networking (COSN) Cornerstone Government Affairs (CGA) Council for a Strong America (CSA) Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) DeVry Education Group Easter Seals Education Industry Association (EIA) FED ED Federal Management Strategies First Focus Campaign for Children George Washington University (GWU) Georgetown University Office of Federal Relations Harvard University Office of Federal Relations Higher Education Consortium for Special Education (HESCE) indiCo International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Johns Hopkins University, Center for Research & Reform in Education (JHU - CRRE) Kent State University Knowledge Alliance Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Magnet Schools of America, Inc. (MSA) Military Impacted Schools Association (MISA) National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) National Association for Music Education (NAFME) National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) National Association of Federally Impacted Schools (NAFIS) National Association of Graduate - Professional Students, Inc. (NAGPS) National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) National Association of Private Special Education Centers (NAPSEC) National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc) National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) National Association of State Student Grant & Aid Programs (NASSGAP) National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) National Coalition for Literacy (NCL) National Coalition of Classified Education Support Employee Unions (NCCESEU) National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP) National Council of Higher Education Resources (NCHER) National Council of State Directors of Adult Education (NCSDAE) National Education Association (NEA) National HEP / CAMP Association National Parent Teacher Association (NPTA) National Rural Education Association (NREA) National School Boards Association (NSBA) National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) National Superintendents Roundtable (NSR) National Title I Association (NASTID) Northwestern University Penn Hill Group Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School Social Work Association of America (SSWAA) Service Employees International Union (SEIU) State University of New York (SUNY) Teach For America (TFA) Texas A&M University (TAMU) The College Board The Ohio State University (OSU) The Pell Alliance The Sheridan Group The Y (YMCA) UNCF United States Student Association (USSA) University of California (UC) University of Chicago University of Maryland (UMD) University of Maryland University College (UMUC) University of Southern California (USC) University of Wisconsin System (UWS) US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) Washington Partners, LLC WestEd

In reality it is a privately funded group that works against the best interests of our public school and educators that work in community schools.

In addition, this group will serve as a clear and transparent line of communication between the department and various stakeholder groups interested in this work, including EPPs, educators working in Tennessee schools and districts, and the public.

We work with public education stakeholders at every level: state legislatures, governors» offices, state education agencies and boards of education, business leaders, foundations, school district superintendents and business officers, county - level leaders, teacher associations, and numerous other groups interested in improving our country's education system.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

In addition, Ilan worked as a legislative intern in the office of Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, and performed outreach to DC college campuses as a function of his internship with the United States Public Interest Research Group.

Steve Norton is a co-founder and Executive Director of Michigan Parents for Schools, a non-profit public interest advocacy group working for excellent community - governed public education in Michigan.

We stand ready to work with groups interested in starting this process in order to ensure the continued growth of the high - quality public charter school movement in Connecticut.»

Never mind that none of these groups are actually interested in either modernizing or elevating anything, and are instead working to hasten the privatization of public education, and turning P - 12 schools and college teacher education programs into profit centers.

In June, she convened a diverse group of about 30 participants with strong interests in gifted kids from all over Minnesota representing parents, legislators, public and private school educators and administrators to work on «New Directions: Gifted Education in Minnesota Vision and Strategic Planning.»

Another recent publication is RISE4Montana, a joint initiative of Montana's education groups with the objective to increase the number of available educators interested in working in Montana's public schools.

Public relations specialists enjoy exclusivity with certain organizations and interest groups that may mutually gain from featuring your work, but tend to only deal with PR professionals directly.

Public interest work is defined as employment where the primary purpose of the work is the representation of the interests of an individual or group of individuals who, for various economic political or social reasons, are not adequately represented.

It is a servant leadership, community organizing initiative empowering animal shelters and rescue groups to work with each other and the public to community build and then act on our common interests of helping animals, increasing lifesaving and strengthening the animal - human connection.

For this special occasion we have selected with Pilar Ordovás a group of works which are all closely related with Chillida's interest in public art and, therefore themes such as scale - in particular the human scale, which is always an important reference in his work, making his sculptures monumental regardless of their size.