Education

Issue: Education Topic: Access to Higher Education Case Date: February 1, 2012   Public Advocates is working to ensure that California’s postsecondary education system provides quality [...]

Issue: Education Topic: Teacher Quality Case Date: January 1, 2011 Background Galvanized by Congress’s action in December 2010 to temporarily halt implementation of the victory won by low-income [...]

Update on CQE v. California On August 22, 2016, in a disappointing 4-3 vote, the California Supreme Court denied plaintiff’s petition for review in our state school funding case, CQE v. [...]

Issue: Education Topic: Teacher Quality Case Date: August 23, 2007 Background In August 2007, Public Advocates and Goodwin Procter, representing Californians for Justice, California ACORN and [...]

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Case Date: November 1, 2006 Public Advocates is also a member of Parents and Students for Great Schools (PSGS), a coalition composed of CFJ, PICO California [...]

Issue: Education Topic: Access to Higher Education Case Date: March 1, 2006 Background Public Advocates helped draft, analyze, and now advocate for proposed U.S. Department of Education student [...]

Issue: Education Topic: Teacher Quality Status: Inactive Project Date: August 1, 2005 Background In August 2005, Public Advocates, representing the Californians for Justice Education Fund, filed [...]

School Accountability Report Cards (SARCs) are documents describing a school’s enrollment, learning conditions (e.g., teacher and facility quality) and academic performance. SARCs, which [...]

Issue: Education Topic: More Education Work Status: Inactive Project Date: January 1, 1999   Background Since 1999, when the Legislature enacted the legislation on the California High School [...]