Sentences with phrase «sorts of advocacy groups»

More visible, for now, are two of the other trends that Schuster saw in 1982: Many state - level officials are now scrambling to develop their own capacity to take the lead on K - 12 education, and all sorts of advocacy groups are scrambling to figure out how they can wield influence effectively in this new environment.

While CLASS is comprised of different sorts of advocacy groups — from InnerCity Struggle to Educators for Excellence — the broad - based coalition shares the same overarching mission: close the achievement gap in LAUSD.

Not exact matches

The announcement, a rally of sorts, included Charles King, the CEO of Housing Works who is also the member of ACT UP New York, an - anti-AIDS advocacy group.

Tristan Laurent, President of advocacy group Online Dating Rights said,»... Americans (have) to divulge all sorts of highly personal information to a complete stranger or scammer abroad before the American can even say hello or know to whom he is writing.»

The issue is whether a federal statistical agency — intended to be immune to every sort of policy agenda and political interest — should outsource its data - gathering efforts to advocacy groups.

Another option is think tanks / advocacy groups (e.g. GWPF, Cato, Environmental Defense, etc.), but they may not want to promote reports that do not originate from their organization, although GWPF seems open to this sort of thing.

Given that the Mountain States Legal Foundation is exactly the sort of right - wing advocacy group that Justice Scalia bases his jurisprudence around, you'd think he'd take it easy on this guy — and he basically did after getting this first dig out of his system.

«Naval brings a certain amount of Silicon Valley credibility to what is otherwise sort of a weird, strange crypto community phenomenon,» says Peter van Valkenburgh, director of research at Coin Center, a Washington crypto think tank and advocacy group.