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Long Beach Post reporter Stephanie Rivera writes that parents and community groups and the Long Beach Unified School District announced the settlement of a complaint filed by Public Advocates [...]

March 23, 2018 – Zelda Bronstein of the Daily Berkeley Planet writes about the BART board’s vote of conditional support for SB 827. Senior Staff Attorney David Zisser is mentioned in [...]

March 1, 2018 – WDET interviewed Liz Ryan Murray, Project Director of CarsonWatch. The conversation focused on revelations that HUD spent $31,000 on a luxury dining table set in the midst [...]

February 28, 2018 – Lindsey Mckenzie of Inside Higher Ed writes about California’s status as the only state that has not signed on to the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement [...]

February 23, 2018 – Ali Tadayon of the East Bay Times writes about the battle in Oakland over the use of public land. Public Advocates is calling for unused public land to be developed into [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 14, 2018   Residents Deliver Valentine’s Day Proposal to City Council: Use Oakland’s Public Land for Public Good   Contact: Vanessa Riles, East 12th Coalition, [...]

MEDIA ADVISORY February 13, 2018 On Valentine’s Day, residents will demand that the City Council show its love for Oakland by adopting a People’s Proposal for Public Land WHAT: On February [...]

February 8, 2018 – Scott Thomas Anderson of the Sacramento News Review writes about Wall Street’s growing influence as a landlord in Sacramento. He mentions that a company like [...]

February 7, 2018 – Adam Rogers of WIRED writes about the fierce debate over SB 827 in California. The bill, sponsored by Senator Scott Wiener, would put some metropolitan zoning policy that [...]

January 30, 2018 – John Fensterwald of EdSource writes about the standoff between state and federal authorities on how to improve schools in California. The federal Every Student Succeeds [...]