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  June 23, 2021 – Mariela Salgado of Long Beach Post Voices in a live chat with Nicole Ochi, senior attorney of education equity at Public Advocates, and Angelica Salazar, director of [...]

June 24, 2021 – Black Star News writes about the Alliance for Housing Justice’s letter to the Biden administration and members of the U.S. Congress urging a close look at reform of [...]

Commentary by Dan Walters of CalMatters on the recent CA Dept of Education decision regarding a complaint filed by Public Advocates and the ACLU against San Bernardino County education officials [...]

Paloma Esquivel of the Los Angeles Times reports on the decision by the California Department of Education that San Bernardino County education officials failed to properly oversee [...]

John Fensterwald of EdSource reports on the CDE decision regarding a complaint that County education officials did not properly oversee school districts’ spending plans. Public Advocates [...]

Federal Stimulus Funds for Transit Operations Over the past 12 months, Congress has invested nearly $70 billion in emergency transit operating funding, including $25 billion in the CARES Act, $14 [...]

The California Department of Education (CDE) has issued an historic decision finding that the San Bernardino County Office of Education (SBCOE) improperly approved school district spending plans [...]

Scott Schwebke reports in the San Bernardino Sun that the San Bernardino County Office of Education short-changed predominately low-income Black and Latino students by an estimated $166 million [...]

PRESS RELEASE June 16, 2021 Contact: Isabel Alegría, ialegria@publicadvocates.org , 510-541-5428 State Education Officials Find Massive Equity & Funding  Violations by San Bernardino County [...]