In 2009, three San Francisco Bay Area organizations brought this complaint against the Bay Area RapidTransit District (“BART”) under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order [...]
Doug Smith of the Los Angeles Times reports on the filing of a federal housing discrimination lawsuit by tenants in Los Angeles’ Koreatown against real estate investment firm Optimus LCC. [...]
This letter was submitted to the California Department of Transportation Division of Rail and Mass Transportation in November 2016 on behalf of ten organizations. The letter makes [...]
Rampant and ongoing discrimination against tenants in several apartment buildings in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles prompted a major federal lawsuit, Martinez v. Optimus Properties [...]
Sam Levin of The Guardian reports on the filing of a major federal housing discrimination lawsuit by Public Advocates, Public Counsel and co-counsel in Los Angeles. The complaint alleges [...]
Brothers and Sisters, As we absorb the implications of the presidential election, we feel driven to connect with you to express our solidarity and our fierce commitment to fight harder than ever [...]
EdSource’s John Fensterwald writes about revisions to how school districts must write their budget and accountability plans, quoting Public Advocates’ John Affeldt. Read the [...]
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 [...]
Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegally Restrict Enrollment From the Report: The original vision of charter schools in the 1990s was to provide new opportunities to improve [...]
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 [...]