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December 11, 2017 – The San Diego Union Tribune Editorial Board wrote about making changes to California’s education funding law, the Local Control Funding Formula. The op-ed mentions [...]

December 7, 2017 – Senior Staff Attorney David Zisser wrote an opinion piece for Shelterforce on the importance of recognzing tenants’ rights as civil rights. “Everyone deserves [...]

By Hans Moore, Senior Staff Attorney On November 8, 2017, at 5:30 a.m., I woke up knowing that a very busy day lay ahead for me. What I didn’t imagine, was that over the next 12 hours I would [...]

December 3, 2017 – John Fensterwald of EdSource shares 24 ideas for improving Governor Brown’s landmark education funding law. The article includes the perspective of Liz Guillen, [...]

November 10, 2017 – Angela Glover Blackwell, CEO of PolicyLink, writes about the displacement and eviction crisis faced by low-income communities and people of color. The article mentions [...]

Public Advocates attorney Anne Bellows and Faith in Action Bay Area Executive Director Lorena Melgarejo speak out in San Mateo Daily Journal OpEd “Renters’ Rights are Civil [...]

October 9, 2017 – An op-ed in The San Francisco Examiner does a wrap-up on the many housing bills signed this year. Public Advocates is mentioned: We should remember that many of these [...]

October 3, 2017 – The Los Angeles County Office of Education has issued a mea culpa saying that it should not have approved the Long Beach Unified School District’s annual budget [...]

September 28, 2017 – Andrew Edwards of the Long Beach Press-Telegram writes about the $24 million finding by the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). According to LACOE, the Long [...]

September 27, 2017 – Jason Ruiz of the Long Beach Post writes about the $24 million finding by the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). According to LACOE, the Long Beach Unified [...]