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Source: Contra Costa Times By: Mike Blasky Date: June 3, 2015 When residents this year learned of plans to sell an empty city-owned lot east of Lake Merritt for a planned tower with high-priced [...]

By: Darwin BondGraham Date: June 2, 2015 Related Staff: David Zisser, Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant Attorneys representing Eastlake United for Justice delivered a letter to Oakland City Attorney [...]

Source: Oakland Tribune By: Sam Tepperman-Gelfant Date: June 1, 2015 Related Staff: Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant Public Advocates’ own Sam Tepperman-Gelfant authors OpEd in Oakland Tribune [...]

Source: EdSource By: John Fensterwald Date: May 28, 2015 Related Staff: John T. Affeldt In its first statement on a critical issue facing school boards, the California Department of Education [...]

Source: Oakland Post News By: Ken Epstein Date: May 23, 2015 Related Staff: David Zisser A local community group has not yet received a reply from City Attorney Barbara Parker about their [...]

Date: May 14, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY May 14, 2015 Contact: Isabel Alegría, 415-431-7434; ialegria@publicadvocates.org Public Advocates Response to May State Budget Revise Today, Governor Jerry Brown [...]

Source: San Francisco Examiner By: Jonah Owen Lamb Date: May 10, 2015 Related Staff: John T. Affeldt Officers for Justice, founded in 1968 by a handful of black and minority officers fed up with [...]

Source: EdSource By: John Fensterwald Date: April 28, 2015 The Legislature’s top Democrats have made a comprehensive rewrite of the law on teacher evaluations a priority this session. But a [...]

Source: The Post News Group By: Ashley Chambers Date: April 17, 2015 In the wake of the City Council’s adoption of the Coliseum Area Specific Plan, a coalition of local residents, workers, youth [...]

Source: Huffington Post By: Joseph Bishop and Tara Kini Date: April 11, 2015 Where have all the teachers gone? It’s the title of a recent story featured on NPR’s All Things [...]