Are Charter Schools Good or Bad for Black Students?
February 1, 2017 – The New Republic’s Graham Vyse explores how the issue of charter schools is dividing the civil rights movement. Organizations like the NAACP have called for a [...]
Public Advocates Statement on Governor Brown’s Proposed Budget for 2017-18
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2017 Contact: Isabel Alegría, 415-431-7434, ialegria@publicadvocates.org On Tuesday of this week, Governor Jerry Brown released his state budget proposal [...]
Trump’s choice for U.S. secretary of education has history of promoting school “choice”
EdSource director Louis Freedburg writes about the naming of billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education in the administration of President-elect Donald Trump. Public [...]
Finally, districts’ accountability plans may be easier to read and use
EdSource’s John Fensterwald writes about revisions to how school districts must write their budget and accountability plans, quoting Public Advocates’ John Affeldt. Read the [...]
Back to (Underfunded) School
By Guillermo Mayer This fall, my wife and I joined millions of families across California in the annual tradition of taking our son to his first day of school. I wish you could have been [...]
Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegally Restrict Enrollment
Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegally Restrict Enrollment From the Report: The original vision of charter schools in the 1990s was to provide new opportunities to improve [...]
NAACP Ratifies Controversial Resolution for a Moratorium on Charter Schools
Washington Post reporter Valerie Strauss writes that leaders of the NAACP have ratified a resolution calling for a moratorium on charter schools. Public Advocates is mentioned in the article. [...]
Here’s Why Some Black Leaders Are Fighting the NAACP Over Charter Schools
Mother Jones writers Edwin Rios and Kristina Rizga on a widening appeal from African American civic leaders to persuade the NAACP to change its stance on charter schools. A recent Public [...]
Gap Co-Founder Doris Fisher Is Bankrolling the Charter School Agenda – And Pouring Dark Money Into CA Politics
Capital & Main’s Joel Warner reports on the funding by Gap co-founder Doris Fisher of charter schools, a system of schools that has come under fire recently in reports by Public [...]
