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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release October 19, 2019 Contact: Duc Luu, Public Advocates: dluu@publicadvocates.org / 857.373.9118 Documentary on Legendary Bay Area Civil Rights Law Firm Premieres [...]

October 16, 2019 – Rachel Cohen of The Intercept writes about Bernie Sanders’ history of standing up to the influential Teach for America (TFA) organization. Managing Attorney John [...]

October 13, 2019 – John Fensterwald of EdSource covers Governor Newsom’s veto of AB 751, a bill that would have replaced statewide exams for 11th graders with the SAT and ACT. Public [...]

October 7, 2019 – L.A. School Report’s Taylor Swaak explains the next steps in Public Advocates’ complaint against LAUSD challenges the accounting and process involved in the [...]

October 2, 2019 – Kyle Stokes reports in LAist that although the LA Unified School District says it fixed its spending plan for high-need students, advocates say it got worse. The L.A. [...]

EdSource reporter Michael Burke writes that some Los Angeles School Board members reluctantly approved the L.A. School District’s spending plan for services to low-income students, English [...]

PRESS ADVISORY For Immediate Release October 1, 2019 Contact: Isabel Alegría: (415) 431-7434; (510) 541-5428, ialegria@publicadvocates.org Nicole Gon Ochi: (626) [...]

September 27, 2019 – The Hill writes about e-scooters and how their promise of leveling the transportation playing field has fallen short. Policy Advocate Salem Afangideh is quoted. Click [...]

September 25, 2019 – Peter Dreier of The American Prospect chronicles the story of AB 1482, also known as the Tenant Protection Act. He describes how renters, long a community with little [...]

September 24, 2019 – Kyle Stokes of LAist and KPCC takes a close look at the LCAP, a document that each school district must provide that explains how it is spending state funds to help [...]