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March 22, 2019 – Managing Attorney John Affeldt penned an op-ed in the East Bay Times spotlighting California’s decades of underfunding public education. Click here to read the op-ed.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 14, 2019 Contact: Duc Luu, Public Advocates Inc., 857-373-9118, dluu@publicadvocates.org Anya Svanoe, ACCE, 510-423-2452, asvanoe@calorganize.org Housing, Labor and [...]

February 25, 2019 – Managing Attorney John Affeldt was on KALW to discuss what’s behind the teachers strikes in Oakland. Hint: The State of California has been underfunding public [...]

February 21, 2019 – Scott Thomas Anderson of the Sacramento News-Review covers a town hall for tenants who are working to bring rent control and just-cause eviction to Sacramento in 2020. [...]

February 18, 2019 – Louis Hansen of the Mercury News writes about new patterns of resegregation in the Bay Area. A report by the California Housing Partnership finds that high rents in the [...]

February 12, 2019 – Theresa Harrington of EdSource covers the decision by the Oakland Unified School District to delay a decision on budget cuts. Public Advocates is mentioned in the [...]

PRESS STATEMENT   February 12, 2019 Contact: Duc Luu, Communications Manager, 857-373-9118, dluu@publicadvocates.org Statement by John Affeldt on Governor Newsom’s State of the State Education [...]

February 6, 2019- SFGate covers the decision by Oakland teachers to authorize a strike. Public Advocates is mentioned in the article. Click here to read the article

January 30, 2019 – John Fensterwald of EdSource covers the LAUSD’s quick ratification of a two-year teachers’ contract. Public Advocates is mentioned in the article over [...]