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Bay City News reports on the Appeals Court ruling last week that charter cities are not exempt from the state law known as the Surplus Land Act when they’re deciding what to do with public [...]

November 27, 2019 – CBS SF covers the ruling by the Sixth Appellate Court that San Jose must follow the Surplus Land Act. Deputy Managing Attorney Sam Tepperman-Gelfant is quoted in the [...]

November 26, 2019 – Courthouse News Service covers the ruling by the Sixth Appellate Court that San Jose must follow the Surplus Land Act. Deputy Managing Attorney Sam Tepperman-Gelfant is quoted [...]

November 26, 2019 Contacts: Rebekah Evenson | Bay Area Legal Aid | 510-250-5226 | revenson@baylegal.org Mike Rawson | Public Interest Law Project | 510-891-9794 | mrawson@pilpca.org Sarah Hopkins [...]

November 22, 2019 – California has seen a surge in the number of temporary credentials issued to underqualified teachers. Compounding the problem, these teachers are often more likely to be [...]

Statement from Public Advocates Updated 1:00pm, November 19, 2019 By pulling text messages out of context, The Sacramento Bee continues to paint a misleading picture. Michelle Pariset is a [...]

November 18, 2019 – Check out this story by Michelle Pariset in Medium.

Education reporter John Fensterwald writes in Sacramento News & Review about the reaction to the CA state auditor’s report criticizing lawmakers and state education officials of failing [...]

PRESS STATEMENT November 9, 2019 Contact: Isabel Alegria, Director of Communications, ialegria@publicadvocates.org Duc Luu, Communications Manager, dluu@publicadvocates.org STATEMENT ON [...]

November 6, 2019 – Vanessa Rancaño of KQED spoke to Managing Attorney John Affeldt about the State Auditor’s first lengthy examination of the state’s education funding law. The [...]