Why School Funding Will Always Be Imperfect
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 [...]
Is Mt. Diablo Unified Spending Enough to Help its Low-income Students?
Bay Area News Group reporter Joyce Tsai reports on complaint filed by Public Advocates regarding Mt. Diablo Unified School District’s spending plan for high-need students. Is Mt. Diablo [...]
State Reaffirms That LA Unified Violated Funding Formula
EdSource reporter John Fensterwald writes that the CA Dept of Education is sticking with its ruling that LAUSD underspent, by hundreds of millions of dollars, money it should have used to [...]
Attachments: Press Release 080916 UCP complaints to 4 Non-Conc CA School Districts & 2 Others re Services for High-Need Students
Mt. Diablo Unified (in Contra Costa County) Public Advocates UCP to MDUSD 2016-08-09 Oak Grove Elementary (in Santa Clara County) Public Advocates UCP Re Oak Grove 2016-8-9 Santa Barbara Unified [...]
Counties Must Reject School District Spending Plans that Violate the Law, Public Advocates Warns
PRESS RELEASE for Immediate Release August 9, 2016 Counties Must Reject School District Spending Plans that Violate the Law, Public Advocates Warns Districts reviewed skirt regulations requiring [...]
Keeping the Promise of LCFF in Districts Serving Less Than 55% High-Need Students
Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: May 19, 2016 File: non-concentrated_district_report_UPDATED A study of fifteen school districts released by Public Advocates Inc. reveals a trend of [...]
Advocacy Groups React to Rejection of LAUSD Appeal on Multimillion-Dollar Error in Funding for High-Need Students
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2016 Contact: Isabel Alegría, ialegria@publicadvocates.org, 510-541-5428 Tony Marcano, tmarcano@aclusocal.org, 213-977-5242 Alexandra Patchen, apatchen@cov.com, [...]
Best Practices for Parent Engagement in LCFF
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Local Control Accountability Plans
The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) law of 2013 fundamentally changed public school financing in California. Among other things, in order to provide greater transparency to local communities [...]
WCCUSD Parents file complaint to suspend spending by district in violation of state law
Project: California’s New School Finance Law: Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Date: March 28, 2016 Parents from the West Contra Costa Schools District filed a complaint today to [...]
