Sentences with phrase «strong legal defense fund»

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The Independent Democratic Conference is happy to put its record of accomplishments — a $ 15 minimum wage, a $ 10 million dollar immigrant legal defense fund and the strongest paid family leave program in the nation — against the do nothing Working Families Party,» she said.

Washington — Amid strong signals that the Reagan Administration is hardening its opposition to busing for school desegregation, the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund has asked a federal judge for permission to intervene in the U.S. Justice Department's desegregation suit against the Charleston County, S.C., public schools.

This became clear last month when the NAACP and its legal defense fund came out on the pages of Education Week in favor of the strong accountability measures that No Child represents (even as it considered the law's sanctions to be «deeply flawed»).