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Joel Warner, of Capital & Main reports on efforts to make charter schools in California more accountable and transparent to the public. He refers to two reports co-authored by Public [...]

Fresno Bee reporter John Ellis on the signing of landmark climate change bills by Governor Brown today in Fresno. Ellis spoke with PA’s Chelsea Tu about benefits to low-income communities [...]

For Immediate Release. 091416. Governor Brown to sign landmark climate legislation today in Fresno, California. Governor set to sign AB 1550 (Gomez) which guarantees that going forward, at least [...]

Los Angeles Times reporter Howard Blume on state promises to make sure help reaches 1.4 million English language learners in California; the article quotes John Affeldt, Public advocates managing [...]

Washington Post reporter Valerie Strauss on California’s charter school system and Public Advocates-ACLU of Southern California report finding that more than 20 percent of all California [...]

For Immediate Release.  The State Board of Education will vote this week on a new accountability system that will show if state dollars spent under CA’s 2013 education finance reform law [...]

For Immediate Release on August 31, 2016. Legislators send climate justice bills to the Governor. AB 1550, GGRF allocations will aid under-served communities and extend California’s fight [...]

EdSource’s John Fensterwald reports on the aftermath of the CA Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a major school funding case co-counseled by Public Advocates. The article quotes [...]

In 2013, California passed  the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), a law that aimed to revolutionize how school districts receive state funding. The Atlantic reports on the concerns of [...]

Los Angeles Times OpEd by Greg Richmond calls on state to improve oversight of Charter Schools based on a recent Public Advocates, ACLU of Southern California investigative review of 1,000 [...]