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For Immediate Release on August 31, 2016. Legislators send climate justice bills to the Governor. AB 1550, GGRF allocations will aid under-served communities and extend California’s fight [...]

EdSource’s John Fensterwald reports on the aftermath of the CA Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a major school funding case co-counseled by Public Advocates. The article quotes [...]

In 2013, California passed  the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), a law that aimed to revolutionize how school districts receive state funding. The Atlantic reports on the concerns of [...]

Los Angeles Times OpEd by Greg Richmond calls on state to improve oversight of Charter Schools based on a recent Public Advocates, ACLU of Southern California investigative review of 1,000 [...]

KPFA reports that a state plan to allocate 400 million dollars for affordable housing is now dead, due to its linkage to a controversial proposal by Governor Jerry Brown that would have created [...]

Plaintiffs in Lawsuit Defending CA Students’ Constitutional Right to Quality Education Decry CA Supreme Court Refusal to Hear Their Appeal For Immediate Release August 22, 2016 Contact: Isabel [...]

EdSource’s John Fensterwald reports on two orders issued by the CA Supreme Court Monday, quoting Public Advocates’ managing attorney John Affeldt on the results in  the school funding [...]

SF Chronicle reporter Bob Egelko writes about the most recent CA Supreme Court orders, including one on CQE v. California, quoting Public Advocates’ managing attorney John Affeldt.   [...]

Bay Area News Group reporter Joyce Tsai reports on complaint filed by Public Advocates regarding Mt. Diablo Unified School District’s spending plan for high-need students.   Is Mt. Diablo [...]

EdSource reporter John Fensterwald writes that the CA Dept of Education is sticking with its ruling that LAUSD underspent, by hundreds of millions of dollars, money it should have used to [...]