Sentences with phrase «supported by the national organization»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«Corporations that exercise sufficient control over their franchisees can not claim ignorance,» said Catherine Ruckelshaus, general counsel and program director for the National Employment Law Project, in a Tuesday conference call held by the organizations supporting the lawsuits.

She currently serves as President and Executive Director and as a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), an independent 501 (c)(3) charitable organization established by Congress to support the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by raising private funds for biomedical research and fostering partnerships and alliances around the world.

If we measure left and right by support for or opposition to abortion and Bill Clinton, which is a reasonable measure in this case, twelve of the groups represented are very far left indeed — including Catholics for a Free Choice, Human Rights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

With the purpose to build and support a farmer - led national organic farmer movement and national policy platform by: developing and advocating policies that benefit organic farmers ¹; strengthening and supporting the capacity of organic farmers and farm organizations; and supporting collaboration and leadership among state, regional and national organic farmer organizations.

Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act Introduced in Congress WineAmerica, the national organization of American wineries, and its partner the MIC Coalition enthusiastically support the bipartisan legislation introduced yesterday by Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner...

Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) is a national non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to educating, empowering and supporting families affected by autism.

We are a national nonprofit multidisciplinary organization that advances our mission by informing, educating and supporting adults who influence the lives of infants and toddlers.

As a therapist who has taught on the national level for over a decade to families and childcare organizations like Parents As Teachers, First Steps, Children's Hope International, and more about the value of attachment, I knew that truly gentle sleep support for parents was hard to come by and too often attached to a big price tag (from $ 50 to sometimes $ 350 for private coaching, site memberships, books / videos, etc).

Please show your personal and organization support for the National Standards for Youth Sports by adding your name to the Signatures of Supporsupport for the National Standards for Youth Sports by adding your name to the Signatures of SupportSupport page.

Whatever you may think of the scientific validity of their positions, or the degree to which they have, or have not, been influenced by the nefarious dairy lobby (and I offer no opinion on either point), here are some leading organizations that currently support flavored milk in schools: the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, the National Medical Association, the National Hispanic Medical Association and the School Nutrition Association.

An alternative would be to abandon federal support, privatize the endowments and corporation, and then seek support on a state by state level as a bunch of state organizations that are part of a national network.

The city of Syracuse will join other cities, counties and national organizations in a legal brief that supports the city of Chicago's lawsuit challenging new regulations by the Justice Department that target sanctuary cities, Mayor Stephanie Miner's office announced.

Of further note, the conference was joined by Sam Smith of the Progressive Review in Washington, DC; by Mike Feinstein of the California Green Party, who had just helped organize a very successful «Green Parties of the West» conference; by representatives of the Reform Party; by Rob Daniels» «Campaign for a New Tomorrow»; and by the Center for Voting and Democracy, a national organization headed by Rob Richie dedicated to promoting Instant Run - off Voting, Ranked Choice Voting, proportional representation, and electoral reforms supported by many Greens through the Center's FairVote organizing work.

Bullied has been endorsed by Charles Haynes, Senior Scholar at the First Amendment Center; Kevin Gogin, Program Coordinator, Support Services for LGBT Youth, San Francisco Unified School District; Sandra Lee Fewer, Commissioner, San Francisco Unified School District and these organizations: Alabama Safe Schools Coalition, Anti-Defamation League, Committee for Children, Encompass, Fortunate Families, GLSEN, Groundspark, Mississippi State Schools Coalition, National Safe Schools Coalition, NEA, New York State United Teachers, PFLAG National and Welcoming Schools / HRC.

Rebuilding Together Saratoga County was founded in 2003 by Michelle Larkin with the support of her husband, Dan; friends and family from the Saratoga community; and the National Rebuilding Together organization.

The debate was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), with support from the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD - Ghana), Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), and Coalition for Domestic Elections Observers (CODEO), and its partner organizations towards next month's general election at Hwidiem in the Asutifi South Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region.

The measure has been opposed by the state chapter of the National Organization for Women as well as conservative religious organizations, but was supported by other women's groups and the state Women's Bar Association.

The study, published today in Nature, was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of the National Institutes of Health, and other organizations.

It may not hold Italy's interest like presidential sex scandals, but the country's premier science funding agency, the National Research Council (CNR), is generating its own unwelcome headlines after it came out that CNR helped fund and support a pro-creationism book compiled by a vice-president at the organization.

Your project would fit nicely into the Instructional Materials for Students component, which «supports the creation and substantial revision of comprehensive curricula and supplemental instructional materials that are research - based; enhance classroom instruction pre-K-12; and reflect standards for science, mathematics, and technology education developed by national professional organizations.»

FLEMING is a non-profit organization operating under the auspices of the Greek General Secretariat for Research & Technology and is supported by the Greek government and by national, European and international grants.

The hospital's nationally recognized research is funded by many leading organizations that support investigation and innovation in children's health, including the National Institutes of Health.

BSRC Alexander Fleming is a non-profit organization operating under the auspices of the Greek General Secretariat for Research & Technology and is supported by the Greek government and by national, European and international grants.

The work was supported by grants (CA194057, CA21745, CA21865, CA194057 and CA96832) from the National Institutes of Health and by ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization of St. Jude.

Consequently, the strains of decreased purchasing power coupled with the responsibility for maintaining the national U.S. ground - based effort in radio, optical, and solar astronomy have led to a division of the NSF AST budget such that, through the decade of the 1990s, about 65 percent of the NSF allocation to AST was assigned to facilities operated by national astronomy organizations, with only about 22 percent made available to support individual investigators (Figure 6.2); the rest went to instrumentation and the university radio observatories.

Long supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute and other philanthropic entities, Cole is an active clinical researcher having developed pediatric cancer clinical trial protocols in conjunction with the national cooperative organization Children's Oncology Group and other collabNational Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute and other philanthropic entities, Cole is an active clinical researcher having developed pediatric cancer clinical trial protocols in conjunction with the national cooperative organization Children's Oncology Group and other collabNational Cancer Institute and other philanthropic entities, Cole is an active clinical researcher having developed pediatric cancer clinical trial protocols in conjunction with the national cooperative organization Children's Oncology Group and other collabnational cooperative organization Children's Oncology Group and other collaborators.

Joining Forces supports activated National Guard and Reservists and their immediate families by encouraging industry fitness professionals, businesses and organizations to recognize the need and devote time to enrich the quality of life and the health of military members and their families» through fitness.

The National Rosacea Society is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the lives of people with rosacea by raising awareness, providing public health information and supporting medical research on this widespread but little - known disorder.

London, ON (serving Canada) About Blog Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada is a national, not - for - profit organization dedicated to reaching every Canadian affected by a brain tumour through support, education, information and research.

Library in the Sky (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory) The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory is one of ten national educational research and development organizations supported by the U.S. Department of Education to improve education.

The contest, which is judged by an external organization, is run by Oscar Mayer, with support from the National Association for Music Education (MENC).

As outlined in the iNACOL Quality Assurance Performance Metrics, states, authorizers, and researchers should adopt more accurate measures of individual growth, such as the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equivalent).

Their position is supported by mainline organizations like the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Urban League, all of which have a long history of advocacy on behalf of disadvantaged populations.

Systems that adopt content - centered approaches are more likely to appeal to research to support their efforts, while child - centered approaches are more likely to appeal to the opinions of practitioners as expressed by the professional organizations to which they belong (as with the standards for developmentally appropriate practice of the National Association for the Education of Young Children).

The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy — supported by the Government of the People's Republic of China and dedicated to literacy work benefitting rural populations and out - of - school youth, particularly girls and women — is awarded to laureates in South Africa, India, and Senegal: The South African Department of Basic Education for its Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign; the Jan Shikshan Sansthan organization in Kerala, India, for its programme, Vocational Skill Development for Sustainable Development, and the Directorate of Literacy and National Languages in Senegal for its National Education Programme for Illiterate Youth and Adults through ICTs.

The project was supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Humanities; a consortium of arts teacher organizations developed comprehensive standards for dance, theater, music, and the visual arts.

The Breakthrough Collaborative (formerly Summerbridge National) is a nonprofit organization that fosters excellence in education by starting and supporting Summerbridge programs in 25 communities across the nation and in Hong Kong.

The Lab's staff will also continue to lead the national advocacy agenda that NCTL launched in 2007 Additionally, grant will support the Lab's «By All Means» initiative by providing advice and support to the city teams, leveraging financial and technical assistance resources, conducting research on the effectiveness of local work, documenting local work and disseminating best practices, brokering national partnerships with organizations in the health, education, social service, and community schools» fields, and providing direct technical assistance in relevant areas of expertisBy All Means» initiative by providing advice and support to the city teams, leveraging financial and technical assistance resources, conducting research on the effectiveness of local work, documenting local work and disseminating best practices, brokering national partnerships with organizations in the health, education, social service, and community schools» fields, and providing direct technical assistance in relevant areas of expertisby providing advice and support to the city teams, leveraging financial and technical assistance resources, conducting research on the effectiveness of local work, documenting local work and disseminating best practices, brokering national partnerships with organizations in the health, education, social service, and community schools» fields, and providing direct technical assistance in relevant areas of expertise.

Thanking the organizations for their support, Ronald Thorpe, president and CEO of the National Board said, «Teacher leadership is not simply a product that can be created by policy and programs — it is a quality that must be forged and nurtured from within the profession.

The cementing of support from these organizations is part of growing momentum for Teach to Lead, which was established in March by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Whole Child Education Whole Child Education is a partnership of 22 national education, health, arts, and civic organizations committed to a whole child approach to education wherein educators, schools, parents, policymakers, and communities work together to ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged in learning, supported by caring adults, and challenged by a well - balanced curriculum.

Have your voice heard by national policy - makers, organizations and agencies in support of school nursing issues and child health needs.

As of 2006, this approach was widely spread across the United States (although more traditional approaches remained dominant) and it was supported by leading organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National Research Council, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector is an independent non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., founded in 2012 by the American Montessori Society to support the growth of public Montessori in the United States.

Partnerships to Uplift Communities is served by another non-profit organization, PUC National, which was created in order to support and enhance the achievement of the mission of the schools and also replicate the model in other communities.

A program of IHEP, the Pathways to College Network is an alliance of national organizations that advances college opportunity for underserved students by raising public awareness, supporting innovative research, and promoting evidence - based policies and practices across the K - 12 and higher education sectors.

Pathways to College Network is an alliance of national organizations that advances college opportunity for underserved students by raising public awareness, supporting innovative research, and promoting evidence - based policies and practices across the K - 12 and higher education sectors.

The vision of El Dorado's M+MI projects is to enhance student achievement by integrating music learning with other academic areas in partnerships with local arts learning organizations (MuST and SF Opera), partner laboratory schools (Oakland Unified and Ravenswood School District Learning Laboratory Schools), and support and guidance from the Music - in - Education National Consortium (New England Conservatory Research Center).

Wiggins's work has been supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Education Commission of the States, among other organizations.