Public School Funding

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 [...]

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 [...]

October 14, 2016 Comments from the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Equity Coalition on the revised Local Control Accountability Plan Template addressed to: Karen Staph Walters, Executive [...]

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 [...]

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

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, [...]

Project: California’s New School Finance Law: Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Date: June 24, 2015 Media Advisory June 24, 2015 Contact: Rigel Massaro, rmassaro@publicadvocates.org; [...]