Education

Maureen Magee of the San Diego Union Tribune reports that disadvantaged students are hurt by admissions rules at some charter schools, according to ACLU, Public Advocates report, Unequal Access: [...]

KPCC’s Kyle Stokes on the release of “Unequal Access” a report by Public Advocates and the ACLU  of Southern California. According to the report, one in five charter schools [...]

Over 20% percent of all charter schools in California have enrollment policies in place that violate state and federal law, according to a new report released today.   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [...]

EdSource’s Louis Freedberg reports that over 1 in 5 of California’s charter schools have restrictive admissions requirements or other exclusionary practices that keep out many students with [...]

Best Practices for Parent Engagement in Local Control Funding Formula   best_practices_for_parent_engagement_-_lcff

Public Advocates released this report on Nov. 20, 2014, documenting the extent of required “service hours” in California’s charter schools. The report explains why the practice is illegal and [...]

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging LA Unified School District’s plans for spending state funds meant to provide new or improved services to high-need students have filed a legal request with [...]

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 [...]

For Immediate Release July 11, 2016 Contact: Isabel Alegria, Public Advocates, ialegria@publicadvocates.org, 510.541.5428 Alexandra Patchen, Covington & Burling LLP, apatchen@cov.com, [...]

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: June 20, 2016 File: s234901_apr_state State’s Answer to CQE/Robles-Wong Plaintiffs’ Petition for Review to the California Supreme Court.