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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 [...]

Washington Post reporter Valerie Strauss writes that leaders of the NAACP have ratified a resolution calling for a moratorium on charter schools. Public Advocates is mentioned in the article. [...]

Investing in Mobility and Equity: Strengthening California’s Low Carbon Transit Operations Program Within the first two years of its implementation, the Low Carbon Transit Operations [...]

A who’s who of advocates, experts and agency representatives come together this week in Oakland for a convening of the California Climate Equity Coalition, a statewide group advocating for [...]

Mother Jones writers Edwin Rios and Kristina Rizga on a widening appeal from African American civic leaders to persuade the NAACP to change its stance on charter schools. A recent Public [...]

Inc. reports that Uber is planning to move its headquarters from San Francisco to Oakland, which has raised some concerns. The article quotes Public Advocates’ managing attorney Richard [...]

March 12, 2015 Robert Fabela, Esq. General Counsel Valley Transportation Authority 3331 North First Street San Jose, CA 95134 RE: CEQA non-compliance of VTP 2040 Dear Mr. Fabela: On the consent [...]

Capital & Main’s Joel Warner reports on the funding by Gap co-founder Doris Fisher of charter schools, a system of schools  that has come under fire recently in reports by Public [...]