School Funding and Accountability

April 4, 2017 – Kyle Stokes of 89.3 KPCC reports on the complaint filed by Public Advocates against the Long Beach Unified School District. The complaint states that the district has [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]