School Funding and Accountability

June 3, 2022 – Public Advocates’ John Affeldt, Managing Attorney, is quoted in an article by John Fensterwald of EdSource about disagreements emerging between state legislators and [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

January 9, 2021 – John Fensterwald reports on Governor Newsom’s proposed solution to a long-running, contentious dispute over how California’s school districts can use leftover [...]

EdSource reporter John Fensterwald reports on Governor Newsom’s nominee to CA highest court, Martin Jenkins, who wrote the opinion derailing two school funding lawsuits, one filed by Public [...]

PRESS RELEASE June 26, 2020 Contact: Isabel Alegria, ialegria@publicadvocates.org; (510) 541-5428   PUBLIC ADVOCATES’ STATEMENT ON EDUCATION PROVISIONS OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE BUDGET The current [...]

In his recent Calmatters Commentary, Dan Walters talks about how state education officials and education advocates are grappling with critical issues during the Covid19 pandemic — including [...]

EdSource’s John Fensterwald reports on an anticipated decision at the state level to allow school districts throughout California to delay the creation of their spending plans known as [...]