Sentences with phrase «school campaign group»

Janet Downs, from the state school campaign group Local Schools Network, obtained the only set of transfer costs ever to be publicly released after she won a 12 - month legal battle with the government.

But Janet Downs, from the state school campaign group Local Schools Network, said that BDT's demand suggests the organisation want UTCs to be «selective».

Allowing free schools to open where there is a «social need» would increase community integration and help prevent racist abuse in classrooms, a free school campaign group has claimed.

Fair funding for schools campaign group, f40, has met with the Secretary of State for Education to discuss concerns about the delayed 2nd Stage consultation on a new national funding formula.

Fair funding for schools campaign group, f40, has welcomed the overall proposals put forward by the government in Stage 2 of the consultation on fair funding for schools.

Not exact matches

A new «independent issues advocacy group» backed by Michael Sacks will launch a campaign to tell Chicago about how schools are getting better.

Stephen Evans, campaigns manager at the National Secular Society (NSS) says: «We welcome the government's robust response to the specific allegations against schools in Birmingham, but it has a long way to go before we can be confident that children's education isn't being compromised by groups with a religious agenda.

Despite the clamour for places, there are prominent campaigns from the country's major secularist groups against faith schools.

If you were to read an article about a groups advertising campaign to promote reinsti.tuting slavery, ritualized child abuse or lowering restrictions on toxic dumping in school zones are you saying you wouldn't comment because you aren't interested in engaging in any of those things?

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.

She shared some creative ideas on how anti-hunger groups can help school nutrition programs through initiatives like school meal application campaigns and grant writing, and she punctuated her points with success stories from DC Hunger Solutions and DC public schools, Ohio's Children's Hunger Alliance, and Project Bread, among others.

WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama's campaign for healthier school lunches has stalled in Congress after anti-hunger groups and more than 100 Democrats protested the use of food stamp dollars to pay for it.

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.

A Jewish activist group is now demanding de Blasio scrub all traces of the anti-Semitic Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant from city property — even Stuyvesant High School — as part of his campaign to rid the city of «symbols or hate.»

Democratic Senate candidate Todd Kaminsky in a radio interview Friday criticized an education reform group's campaign against him, suggesting an investigation wouldn't be surprise because of charter school money being approved in advance of an ad blitz.

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.

Education - oriented groups were the top lobbyists, conducting expensive and extensive campaigns as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a package education policy changes for teacher evaluations and charter schools.

She is a frequent Republican campaign donor, and has founded and served on several school choice groups» boards, according to a report by mlive.com.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

Groups including the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which successfully sued the state for more education funding, charge that Cuomo is ignoring a 2006 court order that said more money needed to be spent to educate the state's poorest school children.

CM Mark - Viverito campaigned against returning the building to use as a school, supporting the City's insistence that East Harlem's schools are underutilized, a claim that has been countered and refuted by many advocacy groups.

Read St James's consultation: http://www.stjames.tgacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/finalconsultation.pdf Read the BHA's correspondence with the Academy and Diocese: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-correspondence-with-Tudor-Grange-Academy-Solihull.pdf Read Tudor Grange's affiliation agreement with the Diocese of Birmingham: http://www.tudor-grange.solihull.sch.uk/images/docs/draftjul11.doc Read the relevant section of the Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/85 Visit the local campaign's Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/150736215077978/ View the petition against the plans: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tudor-grange-admissions-policy Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ Read the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

The labor groups — still steaming over the Senate's surprise vote last month to boost the cap on charter schools — are promising candidates as much as $ 200,000 in campaign cash to take on leading charter proponent Sen. Craig Johnson (D - LI), The Post has learned.

After his victory in the presidential poll, President Muhammadu Buhari repeated his campaign promise to adopt a different approach, in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency, and securing the release of the girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, abducted in 2014 by the terrorist group.

Cuomo has enjoyed the backing of charter school and real estate groups that frequently use independent expenditure campaigns to boost their candidates.

Members of the Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG campaign group have given the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari three options to rescue the 218 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014.

In 2008, the campaign group the Accord Coalition was founded to ensure state funded schools teach about the broad range of beliefs in society; do not discriminate on religious grounds and are made suitable for all children, regardless of their or their parents» religious or non-religious beliefs.

The campaign, which seeks to reform the faith school sector, brings together a range of groups and individuals, including educationalists, civil rights activists and both the religious and non-religious.

David Sciarra is with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the group that successfully brought the lawsuit for more school funding.

A candidate for a Manhattan State Senate is a former top lobbyist for ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the one - time executive director of the pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY — but you wouldn't know it from his campaign literature.

Independent expenditure campaigns have been funded by a variety of interest groups seeking to influence the outcome of a legislative race, including the teachers unions, charter school groups and real - estate organizations.

Speaking at Fordham University Law School, Cuomo announced he propose legislation incorporating measures designed to limit independent expenditure campaign spending as well as require the groups to disclose the identity of their owners, directors and executives exerting control.

The group had hinged its campaign on a bill introduced by Flanagan this month that would have raised the statewide cap on charter schools by 100 and linked it to a 12 - month extension for mayoral control of New York City 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.

All in all, the pro-casino campaign is huing rather closely to the ballot language voters will have before them next week: Namely that the casino amendment will create jobs, lower property taxes and provide for school aid, a contention that opponents say is wrong and good - government groups cringe at.

The British Humanist Association (BHA), whose Campaigns Manager is a member of the advisory group of the Sex Education Forum and has long campaigned for statutory SRE in schools, has welcomed the reports, while stressing the need for the subject to be comprehensive and inclusive.

SPUC is an anti-choice group which, through its «Safe at School» campaign, delivers talks to parents and schoolchildren about the supposed harms of Sex and Relationships Education (SRE), and the dangers of abortion.

The state's campaign finance board found that Great Schools Massachusetts had illegally concealed its donors, and charged the group $ 426,500.

A campaign arm of the rebranded, left - wing group ACORN is spending hundreds of thousands to help Democrats win control of the state Senate and protect traditional, union - controlled public schools.

The British Humanist Association works independently and with others, including progressive religious groups, to campaign for measures to prevent religious schools and organisations providing services to discriminate in ways which would be unlawful for other organisations.

Albany's long legislative session is over, but teachers» unions and education reform groups are now engaged in spin campaigns involving the cap on charter schools.

Charter school groups and their supporters spent $ 16 million on lobbying, campaign contributions to state - level candidates and parties and independent expenditure campaigns last year.

Bradley Tusk, a political consultant and former campaign manager for Michael Bloomberg, helped organize REBNY's past alliance with the charter school group known as StudentsFirst, which also wanted the GOP in control of the Senate.

Organized by longtime pro-charter, anti-de Blasio group Families for Excellent Schools, the rally gleefully plundered the rhetoric of the mayor's 2013 campaign — with children and parents outfitted in T - shirts reading «I fight to end inequality» and slogans bemoaning the «tale of two school systems.»

Eric Pryor, director of the Center of Arts Education, a group that has been pushing the de Blasio administration to improve arts education in schools since last year's mayoral campaign, called Tuesday's announcement a «game changer for tens of thousands of students.»

Derrell Bradford runs the group New York Campaign for Achievement Now, which advocates for the education tax credit, as well as lifting the state's cap on charter schools.

Alliance for Quality Education, a labor - backed advocacy group that pushes for equitable school funding, is leading a campaign for a $ 1.9 billion increase in the budget.

Charles Khan is an organizer at the Strong Economy For All Coalition, a coalition of labor unions and community groups focusing on legislative - driven campaigns to fight economic inequality, unequal funding of public schools, and corporate irresponsibility in New York State.

A charter advocacy group, Families for Excellent Schools, then began a $ 3.6 million advertising campaign protesting the mayor's decision.

Topics include what the groups involved in the campaign will do, Chirlane McCray's role in the campaign, details around the pre-K program and the status of de Blasio's search for a schools chancellor.