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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 21, 2024 Media Contact: Sumeet Bal, Director of Communications, sbal[at]publicadvocates.org, 917.647.1952 SCHOOL FACILITIES MATTER Civil Rights Law [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 20, 2024 Media Contact: Sumeet Bal, Director of Communications, sbal@publicadvocates.org, 917.647.1952 Read the demand letter here PRESS ADVISORY Civil Rights Law [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2024 Media Contact: Sumeet Bal, Director of Communication, sbal@publicadvocates.org, 917.647.1952 Madison D’Ornellas, Communications Specialist, [...]

February 13, 2024—Grandview Independent’s Soren Hemmila speaks with Public Advocates’ Law Fellow Karissa Provenza on the three Williams complaints Public Advocates recently filed with [...]

February 9, 2024—The Mercury News and East Bay Times’ Katie Lauer attends the February West Contra Costa Unified School District meeting and speaks with Public Advocates’ Law Fellow [...]

February 1, 2024 – EdSource’s Monica Velez covers Public Advocate’s filing of three Williams complaints against the West Contra Costa Unified School District, highlighting that the [...]

January 31, 2024 Contact: Sumeet Bal, Director of Communications, sbal@publicadvocates.org, 917.647.1952 Read in Spanish / En Español Civil Rights Law Firm Files Complaints to Address Educator [...]

Public Advocates Files Complaint to Address Educator Staffing Concerns in West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) Since 2005, as a result of Williams v. California, a landmark lawsuit [...]

January 11, 2024 – CalMatter’s* Capitol reporters, Mikhail Zinshteyn and Sameea Kamal, summarize reactions to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2024-2025 budget proposal, which [...]

January 10, 2024 – EdSource’s John Fensterwald analyzes current TK-12 and higher education funding in California, which has been steadily increasing since 2012, and provides a deep analysis of [...]