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Advocacy for Teacher Empowerment Through Action, Cooperation and Harmony Towards Educational Reforms, Inc.
The National Education Trust organizes a range of activities based around three main aims: to provide a national resource for sharing best practice; to provide high quality school improvement and continuing professional development training; and to contribute to national policy discussions.
StudentsFirst organizes its policy agenda into three categories: "elevate teaching," "empower parents," and "govern well." [4]Under what it calls "elevate teaching," StudentsFirst has sought to eliminate the "last in, first out"—or LIFO-- seniority system for laying off public school teachers, [1] based on the premise that such a system promotes a sense of "adult entitlement" among teachers. [5]
The NCAE is a 501(c)6 tax-exempt organization. [7]After the Republicans gained control of the North Carolina General Assembly for the first time since 1870, [8] one of the laws passed included Senate Bill 727 which takes away the ability for school employees to have automatic deductions taken out for dues payments to the North Carolina Association of Educators. [9]
Strong American Schools, a project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is a nonprofit organization supported by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that seeks to promote sound education policies for all Americans.
Daniel Trust Foundation is a youth development non-profit organization founded by Daniel Trust.It was launched in 2009 and provides mentorship and scholarship opportunities to high school seniors and student-selected recognition and funding for high school teachers.
In most liberal democracies, advocacy groups tend to use the bureaucracy as the main channel of influence – because, in liberal democracies, this is where the decision-making power lies. The aim of advocacy groups here is to attempt to influence a member of the legislature to support their cause by voting a certain way in the legislature ...
Another tool in grassroots advocacy is Save Libraries. “Save Libraries is a grassroots effort to compile information and advocacy resources for libraries that are facing devastating budget cuts” [37] and offers resources, tools, and information regarding library advocacy. “The need for public support of libraries never diminishes.