The Right and Wrong Way: Calculating LAUSD’s S&C Funds
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 [...]
The Fight to Bring Transparency to California’s Charter Schools
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 [...]
Feds say Some Students Went a Decade Without Help Learning English
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 [...]
How Messed up is California’s Charter School Sector- You Won’t Believe How Much
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 [...]
Equity Coalition Comments on Evaluation Rubrics
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 [...]
State Board of Education to Vote on Important Accountability System
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 [...]
Dissenting Judge Awaits Second Chance to Corral a Majority on School Funding Lawsuit
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 [...]
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 [...]
If CA Wants Better Compliance from Charter Schools, it Must fix its Oversight System
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 [...]
