Sentences with phrase «small education campaigns»

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The federal government is working to dispel myths on GMOs, with $ 3 million recently allocated for a public education campaign, but this small effort is unlikely to be enough to stop consumer concerns.

«I know that Chris Cox will use his education and experience as a small businessman to not only join the economic debate in Washington, but to be a leader to create jobs and economic growth,» said Forbes in a statement released by Cox's campaign.

Teachout spoke to the mostly multi-aged crowd, sprinkled with children, students, adults and senior citizens, saying that she has a vision for New York that will make public higher education affordable; a New York that «should be leading the way in renewable resources» and environmental policies; a New York that bans fracking and all fracking byproducts; and a New York that «supports small local businesses and farms, rather than giving tax breaks to corporate campaign donors.»

The ad campaign, which is paid for by the California Alliance for Progress and Education, an Alliance of Small Business Professional Organizations, won't say who they're targeting.

Chad comes to us from the Alliance for Quality Education where he served as Statewide Campaign Coordinator, working with small cities and poor rural areas to ensure adequate school funding regardless of zip code.

«As the state's top fiscal watchdog, Comptroller DiNapoli is expected to make the case for Danks Burke as the best choice in November to help local farms, encourage small business growth, and ensure quality, affordable education for all families,» the Danks Burke campaign said in a statement.

CEO for the anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday PAC; She's an antitrust and media expert, covered extensively in her book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United; Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign; Cofounded «A New Way Forward», designed to break up big banks «too big to fail» which damaged small businesses after the 2008 crash; Involved with Occupy Wall Street; National director of the non partisan Sunlight Foundation which works to make Congress more transparent; Works to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking in NYS;

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

The campaign to take on The System and its schools also enjoyed the services of a handful of intellectual spokesmen whose written works outline a case against education bureaucracy that remains brilliant in many small ways, if repulsive in several big ones.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the smaller of the two national professional education unions, ranked 25th in campaign spending, with almost $ 12 million, while NEA / AFT collaborative campaigns spent an additional $ 3.4 million, enough to earn the rank of 123rd.

Overview This opportunity for learning and dialogue, developed in partnership with the Campaign for High School Equity, will include a small group of national education and youth - serving organizations representing the broad range of actors in the civil rights and education

However, the campaign driven by a small group urging parents to opt their children out of statewide tests threatens to do great damage to our mission of ensuring an equal education for every child no matter where he or she is growing up.

According to the State of Colorado campaign finance reporting system, DFER also has at least two other PACS registered in Colorado; Democrats for Education Reform Political Committee and Democrats for Education Reform Small Donor Committee.

A small group of them gathered last year to discuss how they can implement a focused, collaborative effort to improve student achievement in struggling schools and how to link that effort to supporting the National Education Association's Priority Schools Campaign.

Teachers for Illinois» Future is a campaign led by Advance Illinois, Association of Illinois Rural and Small Schools, Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University, Equity First Superintendents, Northern Illinois University, Roosevelt University, and Teach Plus.

An elementary school teacher, Rossano Ercolini began a public education campaign about the dangers of incinerators in his small Tuscan town that grew into a national Zero Waste movement.

Rossano Ercolini, an elementary school teacher, was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2013 for his work to lead a public education campaign about the dangers of incinerators in his small Tuscan town that grew into a national Zero Waste (ZW) movement.

• Ability to lead and work effectively in a team demonstrating high class leadership qualities • Inborn skills to convince and persuade people • Demonstrated ability to manage big and small social campaigns or promotional projects • Excellent presentation skills, track record of conducting and facilitating numerous community development workshops proficiently • Substantial knowledge of available community based services regarding health, education and life support • In depth knowledge of family law and the children's rights act of USA

Know Before You Fly is an education campaign founded by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA), and the Small UAV Coalition in partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to educate prospective users about the safe and responsible operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).