Access to Quality Education

Public Advocates, ACLU of Southern California and Covington & Burling LLP are representing Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) parent Reyna Frias and the Community Coalition of South [...]

Joel Warner, of Capital & Main reports on efforts to make charter schools in California more accountable and transparent to the public. He refers to two reports co-authored by Public [...]

Los Angeles Times reporter Howard Blume on state promises to make sure help reaches 1.4 million English language learners in California; the article quotes John Affeldt, Public advocates managing [...]

Washington Post reporter Valerie Strauss on California’s charter school system and Public Advocates-ACLU of Southern California report finding that more than 20 percent of all California [...]

This is a letter to State Board of Education President Mike Kirst regarding the new school accountability system, dated September 2, 2016. Equity Coalition Comments on Evaluation Rubrics   [...]

For Immediate Release.  The State Board of Education will vote this week on a new accountability system that will show if state dollars spent under CA’s 2013 education finance reform law [...]

EdSource’s John Fensterwald reports on the aftermath of the CA Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a major school funding case co-counseled by Public Advocates. The article quotes [...]

In 2013, California passed  the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), a law that aimed to revolutionize how school districts receive state funding. The Atlantic reports on the concerns of [...]

Los Angeles Times OpEd by Greg Richmond calls on state to improve oversight of Charter Schools based on a recent Public Advocates, ACLU of Southern California investigative review of 1,000 [...]

Plaintiffs in Lawsuit Defending CA Students’ Constitutional Right to Quality Education Decry CA Supreme Court Refusal to Hear Their Appeal For Immediate Release August 22, 2016 Contact: Isabel [...]