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August 24, 2017 – The Long Beach Post’s Jason Ruiz covers our appeal against the Long Beach Unified School District. It is the latest step since our complaint in April 2017 that [...]

August 22, 2017 – Jean Tepperman of Oakland Magazine writes about the recent victory by community activists to incorporate equity guidelines in Plan Bay Area. It was a stunning turnaround, [...]

KPCC-FM’s Adolfo Guzman Lopez reports that CA Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that  about $51 million in student loan relief will be coming to former California students of the [...]

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release July 27, 2017   CONTACT: Isabel Alegría, 510- 541-5428,  ialegria@publicadvocates.org or David Zisser, 415-828-8722, dzisser@publicadvocates.org   [...]

EdSource’s George White reports on efforts to advance approaches to combat financial fraud, waste and mismanagement in California’s charter schools. From the article… “The [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2017 California Climate Equity Coalition Opposes Proposed Restriction on Cap-and-Trade Funds ACA-1 (Mayes) Would Slow Efforts to Clean the Air, Create Jobs   [...]

July 18, 2017 – The State Board of Education has released an updated draft of the state plan for complying with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). As part of ESSA, the state must detail [...]

July 9, 2017 – AB 1321 has been stripped of a key provision. The provision would have called for school districts to detail how funding from California new’s education finance law [...]

San Jose’s findings on displacement from its Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice: Includes and analyzes maps on the risk of displacement produced by UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement [...]

June 27, 2017 By David Zisser Fair housing and anti-displacement advocates won an important victory on April 25th in San Jose that may have repercussions at the regional, state, and even national [...]