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Mt. Diablo Unified (in Contra Costa County) Public Advocates UCP to MDUSD 2016-08-09 Oak Grove Elementary (in Santa Clara County) Public Advocates UCP Re Oak Grove 2016-8-9 Santa Barbara Unified [...]

PRESS RELEASE for Immediate Release August 9, 2016 Counties Must Reject School District Spending Plans that Violate the Law, Public Advocates Warns Districts reviewed skirt regulations requiring [...]

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: May 19, 2016 File: non-concentrated_district_report_UPDATED A study of fifteen school districts released by Public Advocates Inc. reveals a trend of [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2016 Contact: Isabel Alegría, ialegria@publicadvocates.org, 510-541-5428 Tony Marcano, tmarcano@aclusocal.org, 213-977-5242 Alexandra Patchen, apatchen@cov.com, [...]

The Cabinet’s Tom Chorneau reports on the release of a report by Public Advocates and the ACLU of Southern California about harmful screening policies at many charter schools in California. [...]

Maureen Magee of the San Diego Union Tribune reports that disadvantaged students are hurt by admissions rules at some charter schools, according to ACLU, Public Advocates report, Unequal Access: [...]

Palo Alto Online’s Kate Bradshaw reports on Public Advocates’ and ACLU criticism of Facebook Expansion Studies and the impact the expansion could have on local communities   [...]

KPCC’s Kyle Stokes on the release of “Unequal Access” a report by Public Advocates and the ACLU  of Southern California. According to the report, one in five charter schools [...]

Over 20% percent of all charter schools in California have enrollment policies in place that violate state and federal law, according to a new report released today.   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [...]

EdSource’s Louis Freedberg reports that over 1 in 5 of California’s charter schools have restrictive admissions requirements or other exclusionary practices that keep out many students with [...]