News

January 8. 2021 – John Fensterwald reports on Governor Newsom’s budget announcement and the details he gave about the state’s commitment to making a major investment into [...]

January 8, 2021 – Joe Hong of KPBS writes about the plan to reopen San Diego schools and the concern that the Governor’s plan will disproportionately benefit wealthier districts. [...]

January 7, 2021 – Jill Tucker of the San Francisco Chronicle writes about the plan to safely reopen schools, and the rollout of  vaccines to teachers. Managing Attorney John Affeldt is [...]

January 1, 2021 (update)–  John Fensterwald reports that district and county superintendents, school advocates and union leaders reacted to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan for reopening elementary [...]

December 30, 2020 – Jill Tucker and Dustin Gardiner report on the announcement by Gov. Gavin Newsom that state school districts will have a $2 billion incentive to open, and that the state [...]

December 30, 2020 For Immediate Release Contact: Duc Luu, dluu@publicadvocates.org, 857-373-9118 Response to Governor Newsom and Legislative Leaders Plan to Incentivize School Reopenings From [...]

December 29, 2020 – Larry Gordon of EdSource writes about the defeat of Proposition 16. Senior Staff Attorney Nicole Gon Ochi is featured and discusses the need for increase targeted [...]

December 11, 2020 – Madeline St. Amour of Inside Higher Ed covers “Still Getting There”—our new report covering the implementation of Assembly Bill 705, a 2017 law that [...]

December 8, 2020 – Louis Hansen of the Mercury News writes about a proposal to extend California’s COVID eviction moratorium to December 31, 2021. The story features Managing Attorney [...]

December 8, 2020 – Michael Burke of EdSource covers our new “Still Getting There” report that examines implementation of AB 705. The report highlights the significant progress [...]