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The transition is a long - awaited victory for privacy advocates and tech companies wary of broad government surveillance at a time when national security concerns are heightened in the wake of the Paris attacks earlier this month.

Commenting on the small firms» National Insurance rate John Walker, National Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, said: «The FSB has advocated an extension to the current NICs holiday scheme for some time.

«In a time when national leaders fail to value our environment and what it means for our health and our economy, it is all the more important that New York leaders (from both sides of the aisle) work together to demonstrate true green leadership,» write the Environmental Advocates of New York and the Long Island Pine Barrens Society.

He additionally spent time at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, which advocates for improving end of life care and is the largest nonprofit membership organization of its kind in the United States.

The Times stopped short of endorsing Cuomo's primary opponent, Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout, though the paper did call her «a national expert on political corruption and an advocate of precisely the kind of transparency and political reform that Albany needs.»

Those attending the People's State of the State Rally included advocates and officials from The Fiscal Policy Institute, the Hunger Action Network of New York State, Interfaith Impact of New York State, the New York State Labor - Religion Coalition, Physicians for a National Health Program and Reform Jewish Voice of New York State, according to the Times Union of Albany.

President Obama is making preparations to declare the Stonewall Inn and the area around it a National Park, a move that advocates have been pushing for some time.

Those voices include, as this column noted in early July, two recently published reports: Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, from the U.S. National Academies, which urges universities to «restructure doctoral education..., shorten time - to - degree and strengthen the preparation of graduates for careers both in and beyond the academy,» and the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which advocates «additional training and career development experiences to equip students for various career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period.»

Nearly four years after a front - page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize.

Finland's PISA scores and rankings slipped in 2009, and again in 2012, followed by a scathing report from the University of Helsinki that led the program's uber - advocate Pasi Sahlberg to warn that the time had come for Finns «to concede that the signals of change have been discernible already for a while and to open up a national discussion regarding the state and future of the Finnish comprehensive school that rose to international acclaim due to our students» success in the PISA studies.»

Phoenix (May 7, 2018)-- In a record - breaking year that saw national charter public school enrollment surpass 3.2 million students for the first time, Arizona is proud to join students, families, educators and advocates across the country in celebrating National Charter Schoonational charter public school enrollment surpass 3.2 million students for the first time, Arizona is proud to join students, families, educators and advocates across the country in celebrating National Charter SchooNational Charter Schools Week.

The school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and school choice advocates hit a trifecta last week» after expansions to the charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred on the same day.

Start School Later is a registered 501 (c)(3) non-profit involved at local, state, and national levels to raise awareness about and advocate for safe and healthy school start times.

With U.S. students» math and reading scores showing statistically significant declines on a national test for the first time in more than two decades, advocates on all sides have begun pointing fingers.

During these difficult financial times, GO Public Schools continues to advocate for budget transparency, clear communication and engagement with community members, and implementation of national best practices in district level budgeting.

At the American Federation for Children's annual National Policy Summit, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will deliver a keynote address at a unique and exciting time for school choice advocates across the country.

Learning Forward — formerly National Staff Development Council — advocated in its «Standards for Staff Development» that districts spend 10 percent of their budget on staff development, and that at least 25 percent of an educator's work time should be devoted to learning and collaborating with colleagues.

Literacy instruction in California at this time was taking place within a raging national debate between advocates for phonics and supporters of whole language, and Proposition 227 had recently been passed, forcing dramatic reorganization of language and literacy instruction in school.

Although at various times national standards have been advocated by both Republicans and Democrats, enthusiasm for them has never lasted long enough for them to be created and adopted.

I'm a faculty member at the Student Loan Law Workshop, a nationally recognized speaker, and a long - time member of both the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and National Association of Consumer Advocates.

Some of the largest, and most well - funded, national organizations that are meant to protect animals and advocate for their causes (organizations that if you are reading this article there is a good chance that you give money to) are spending precious time and resources (i.e. donor dollars) to advocate against a system that's sole purpose is to save animal's lives.

If you have time to fax [phone]) or mail (7920 Norfolk Ave., Suite 600, Bethesda, MD 20814 Attn: Citation Information) us a copy of your citation, we monitor and track trends in the types of citations being issued around the country so we can continue to advocate on a national level for caregivers like you.

American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, recognized what we at Zoetis have known for a long time: Dr. J. Michael (Mike) McFarland, Group Director, Companion Animal Marketing at Zoetis, is an exemplary advocate for animals.

After more than 20 years as a full - time pet advocate and national media personality, Steve Dale might be compelled to slow down.

Hallmark Channel, the exclusive home for kitten sports like the highly - rated Kitten Bowl franchise, is back with more cat cuteness when Meow Madness, hosted by animal advocate Beth Stern, national spokesperson for North Shore Animal League America, airs tonight — just in time for kitten season at your local animal shelter.

Supporting and advocating for the collection of ephemeral, time - based, and digital art works since its founding, bitforms gallery artists are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, among other institutions internationally.

Dugan's work has been exhibited internationally at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, and many other institutions, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, The Advocate, Slate, Huffington Post, and the Boston Globe.

In the absence of clear, national policy on climate change — aside from the current administration's tendency to ignore it or call it a hoax — CCS advocates said carbon capture gives power to the private sector until the time is right.

But at the same time we are seeing more and more data loss, Goddard is claiming «fabrication» of lost temperature data in the final product and at the same advocating using the raw surface temperature data for a national average.

That was the consensus yesterday afternoon among a panel of the country's top Supreme Court advocates, hosted at the Georgetown University Law Center by Legal Times and The National Law Journal.

Personally, I decided to join the Air National Guard because it offers a good mix of both the freedom to live a civilian - puke life with the thrilling experience of being a part - time Judge Advocate.

While groups such as SPARC continue to develop and advocate for open access to journal literature, and I think time develop a strategic direction and platform in Canada for open access to legal scholarship that follows logically from the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and the subsequent development of CANLII as a national platform of open access to legal material.

Dave Maxfield is the three - time Chairman of the Consumer Law section of the South Carolina Bar and a member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) and Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA).

We have a dedicated full - time employee to clean up all of your top - tier legal directory listings: Justia, FindLaw, Martindale - Hubbell, Avvo, HG, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates, BBB, Super Lawyers, LexisNexis, National Trial Lawyers, and a few others.

As did time at the Department of National Defence and exposure to the Judge Advocate General's office and rules of engagement.

During his time at Baylor Law School, Cody competed as an active member of the school's mock trial and moot court teams in a number of national trial and appellate advocacy competitions and received a scholarship to be 1 of 8 U.S. law students to attend The Advanced School of the Trial at the Academy of the Advocate at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he received the Top Advocate Award.

It is worth noting that public policy makers from the time of the Canadian Law Information Council, and possibly even earlier, have advocated the creation of a truly national encyclopedia of the laws of Canada.

This book highlights and recognises the foundational work of the many human rights and social justice advocates, be they individuals, communities and organisations, who have the vision and courage required to make a difference and it is now time for politicians and policy makers to join us to address this national crisis.

A long - time child care advocate, she was the Director of CAW Child Care Services, an early president of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care and served for many years as the National Coordinator for Campaign 2000: End Child Poverty Now.

«As the leading advocate for home ownership, housing issues and private property rights, the National Association of Realtors ® and our members are committed to keeping housing first on the nation's public policy agenda, because housing and home ownership issues affect all Americans,» said NAR President Ron Phipps, broker - president of Phipps Realty in Warwick, R.I. «Now is the time to «seize the day,» and I am confident that Realtors ® have the strength, wisdom and leadership to shape a bright and positive future for our industry and our nation.»

Established in 1997, the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA)» is the national voice of the reverse mortgage industry, serving as an educational resource, policy advocate and public affairs center for lenders, as well as related professionals... Over 90 % of the reverse mortgages in the United States today are originated or purchased by NRMLA members, and over 95 % of the reverse mortgages originated in the United States at this time are home equity conversion mortgage («HECM») loans insured by the FHANational Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA)» is the national voice of the reverse mortgage industry, serving as an educational resource, policy advocate and public affairs center for lenders, as well as related professionals... Over 90 % of the reverse mortgages in the United States today are originated or purchased by NRMLA members, and over 95 % of the reverse mortgages originated in the United States at this time are home equity conversion mortgage («HECM») loans insured by the FHAnational voice of the reverse mortgage industry, serving as an educational resource, policy advocate and public affairs center for lenders, as well as related professionals... Over 90 % of the reverse mortgages in the United States today are originated or purchased by NRMLA members, and over 95 % of the reverse mortgages originated in the United States at this time are home equity conversion mortgage («HECM») loans insured by the FHA.»