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KQED: Clipper 2.0 Is Here. Glitches Have Plagued the Rollout
While Bay Area transit riders battled website glitches to upgrade their Clipper accounts, a bigger barrier went unnoticed: the new system still doesn’t work for low-income, unbanked riders. Laurel Paget-Seekins tells KQED why tech upgrades alone won’t solve transit inequity.
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Press Release: Landmark Lawsuit Challenges California’s “Backwards” School Facilities System That Punishes Poor Districts
Today Public Advocates, a civil rights law firm, and pro bono counsel Morrison Foerster, filed a landmark constitutional challenge on behalf of students, families, and educators against the State of California for operating a discriminatory school facility funding system that forces children in low-wealth districts to learn in buildings with toxic mold, leaky classrooms, failing HVAC systems and dangerous playgrounds while wealthy districts are funded to build state-of-the-art facilities.
Statement: Public Advocates Demands Trump End Troop Deployment, Ice Raids on California Communities
Public Advocates strongly condemns President Trump’s deployment of 2,000 armed National Guard troops and 700 Marines against demonstrators and immigrant communities in Los Angeles. This dangerous escalation represents a boiling point in the Trump administration’s attacks on Californians that began in January while our state struggled to recover from devastating firestorms.
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Workers and Riders Unite: Bus schedules by and for humans
“… we are not machines. We’re human beings, and we have needs.” Lisa, an AC Transit operator, shared this powerful statement with the AC Transit …
Videos: Equitably funding school facility modernization
Public Advocates is partnering with impacted students, families, educators, and grassroots community organizations across the state to call for an equitable education bond this November …
Blog: Reframing AC Transit Realign for Long-Term Solutions
In response to changing travel after the COVID pandemic, AC Transit’s is doing a project called Realign to propose changes in their service. The proposals …