Our Work

December 17, 2013 Webinar on how new California Common Core standards will affect local districts. Delivered by Brandon Greene and Rigel Massaro.

It’s official! Our Equity, Environment and Jobs Scenario for the Bay Area’s future is the “environmentally superior alternative,” performing better than four other alternative plans on a broad [...]

Issue: Education Topic: Teacher Quality Background At the heart of our education work is the belief—well-grounded in the research literature—that excellent teachers are key to educational [...]

In the Bay Area, countywide transportation agencies wield significant power over the use of billions of dollars in transportation funding. These “Congestion Management Agencies,” or CMAs, have [...]

Background The basic competitive unit of the global economy is not the city, but the metropolitan region. Our labor and housing markets, transportation systems, and air, water and other natural [...]

Issue: Education Topic: Access to Higher Education Case Date: February 1, 2012   Public Advocates is working to ensure that California’s postsecondary education system provides quality [...]

Issue: Education Topic: Teacher Quality Case Date: January 1, 2011 Background Galvanized by Congress’s action in December 2010 to temporarily halt implementation of the victory won by low-income [...]

Update on CQE v. California On August 22, 2016, in a disappointing 4-3 vote, the California Supreme Court denied plaintiff’s petition for review in our state school funding case, CQE v. [...]

We are lead counsel (with the California Affordable Housing Law Project) in an affordable housing suit against the City of Pleasanton.  Our clients are Urban Habitat, an environmental justice [...]