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Silicon Valley Business Times reporter Nathan Donato-Weinstein reports on the community lawsuit filed by Public Advocates and co-counsel on violation of Surplus Land Act by San Jose.   Read [...]

NBC Bay Area reporter Lisa Fernandez on the expansion of Facebook’s peninsula campus in light of Public Advocates’ and ACLU affordable housing concerns.   Read the article, and [...]

San Jose Mercury News reporter Ramona Giwargis  writes that two struggling renters and a pair of advocacy groups joined in filing a lawsuit Thursday against San Jose claiming a recent city [...]

As the company prepares to bring thousands of new workers to its Menlo Park campus, the Guardian’s Sam Levin reports that advocates say Facebook must do more to help lower-income local [...]

San Jose Mercury News’ Sharon Noguchi reports on the questionable impact on disadvantaged students of the state’s increase in funds to school districts, quoting Public [...]

Streetsblog California reporter #DamienTalks interviews Sam Tepperman-Gelfant about harmful housing proposal legislators are hoping to attach as a budget trailer bill that will make it hard for [...]

John Affeldt, of the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates, has been critical of accountability aspects that are too focused on test scores and said the measures being discussed now in California [...]

EdSource reports that State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has given Los Angeles Unified a one-year reprieve from a ruling requiring the district to spend potentially hundreds [...]

Source: 48 Hills By: Tim Redmond Date: June 10, 2016 48 Hill reporter Tim Redmond writes that California came within days of adopting a law that would have taken away the right of the public to [...]

Source: EdSource By: John Fensterwald Date: June 10, 2016 Related Staff: John T. Affeldt EdSource’s John Fensterwald writes that  organizations advocating for minority children and analysts [...]