Access to Quality Education

January 16, 2018 – John Fensterwald of EdSource writes about recent developments regarding the state’s plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Public [...]

December, 28, 2017 – Joyce Tsai of the East Bay Express writes about the shift away from traditional textbooks to online tools happening in Oakland classrooms. Managing Attorney John [...]

Staff of the Long Beach Press Telegram report on 2017 in the Long Beach schools, including Public Advocates challenge to the LBUSD’s spending of $40 million on high need students. In [...]

December 11, 2017 – The San Diego Union Tribune Editorial Board wrote about making changes to California’s education funding law, the Local Control Funding Formula. The op-ed mentions [...]

By Hans Moore, Senior Staff Attorney On November 8, 2017, at 5:30 a.m., I woke up knowing that a very busy day lay ahead for me. What I didn’t imagine, was that over the next 12 hours I would [...]

December 3, 2017 – John Fensterwald of EdSource shares 24 ideas for improving Governor Brown’s landmark education funding law. The article includes the perspective of Liz Guillen, [...]

October 3, 2017 – The Los Angeles County Office of Education has issued a mea culpa saying that it should not have approved the Long Beach Unified School District’s annual budget [...]

September 28, 2017 – Andrew Edwards of the Long Beach Press-Telegram writes about the $24 million finding by the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). According to LACOE, the Long [...]

September 27, 2017 – Jason Ruiz of the Long Beach Post writes about the $24 million finding by the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). According to LACOE, the Long Beach Unified [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 Contact: Cadonna Dory, Children’s Defense Fund – California, cdory@childrensdefense.org (o) 213.355.8790 (m) 323.385.6342 James Suazo, Building Healthy [...]