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More than ever, we need your support to help create progressive change in California. Help fuel the resistance against the incoming Trump administration by making a tax-deductible gift to Public [...]

In 2009, three San Francisco Bay Area organizations brought this complaint against the Bay Area RapidTransit District (“BART”) under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order [...]

Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegally Restrict Enrollment From the Report: The original vision of charter schools in the 1990s was to provide new opportunities to improve [...]

October 14, 2016 Comments from the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Equity Coalition on the revised Local Control Accountability Plan Template addressed to: Karen Staph Walters, Executive [...]

Investing in Mobility and Equity: Strengthening California’s Low Carbon Transit Operations Program Within the first two years of its implementation, the Low Carbon Transit Operations [...]

In December of 2011, thirty organizations (national, statewide, and local) and scholars who specialize in social justice issues in transportation submitted comments to the U.S. Department of [...]

This is a letter to State Board of Education President Mike Kirst regarding the new school accountability system, dated September 2, 2016. Equity Coalition Comments on Evaluation Rubrics   [...]

Every month, Public Advocates distributes its E-Newsletter to subscribers. The Newsletter contains updates of our work in education, housing, climate justice and transportation justice as well as [...]

Best Practices for Parent Engagement in Local Control Funding Formula   best_practices_for_parent_engagement_-_lcff

Public Advocates released this report on Nov. 20, 2014, documenting the extent of required “service hours” in California’s charter schools. The report explains why the practice is illegal and [...]