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As housing costs continue to skyrocket across California and the United States, a recently released new report “Building Our Future: Grassroots Reflections on Social Housing” examines [...]

California has not yet established a clear vision and comprehensive action plan to recruit, prepare, and sustain an educator workforce whose diversity reflects that of California’s students. To [...]

Public Advocates Education Equity Team Senior Staff Attorney, Shilpa Ram, authored a policy brief that illuminates the accomplishments, passion and struggles of bilingual educators and educators [...]

Public Advocates co-authored a report that examined how the state spent billions of dollars in new education funding during the pandemic. Click here to see the report “How Districts Planned [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                July 11, 2019 Contact: Isabel Alegría, Public Advocates; ialegria@publicadvocates.org, 415.431.7434; 510.541-5428 Duc Luu, [...]

EdSource’s John Fensterwald reports on the inclusion in the state budget  of $13.1 million to support community engagement with the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). This is the 2013 [...]

This is a letter written by Public Advocates to L.A. County Office of Education regarding Pomona Unified School District’s LCAP. PA Letter to LACOE regarding Pomona USD

On May 25, 2017 our dear friend and colleague Miguel Angel Méndez passed away at his home in San Carlos, California, with his family at his side. We at Public Advocates deeply mourn the loss of [...]

For a PDF of this statement, including a chart of schools that have  not reported back on action to correct exclusionary policies, click here; for a press release on the statement, click here. By [...]

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More than ever, we need your support to help create progressive change in California. Help fuel the resistance against the incoming Trump administration by making a tax-deductible gift to Public [...]

In 2009, three San Francisco Bay Area organizations brought this complaint against the Bay Area RapidTransit District (“BART”) under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order [...]

Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegally Restrict Enrollment From the Report: The original vision of charter schools in the 1990s was to provide new opportunities to improve [...]

October 14, 2016 Comments from the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Equity Coalition on the revised Local Control Accountability Plan Template addressed to: Karen Staph Walters, Executive [...]

Investing in Mobility and Equity: Strengthening California’s Low Carbon Transit Operations Program Within the first two years of its implementation, the Low Carbon Transit Operations [...]

In December of 2011, thirty organizations (national, statewide, and local) and scholars who specialize in social justice issues in transportation submitted comments to the U.S. Department of [...]

This is a letter to State Board of Education President Mike Kirst regarding the new school accountability system, dated September 2, 2016. Equity Coalition Comments on Evaluation Rubrics   [...]

Every month, Public Advocates distributes its E-Newsletter to subscribers. The Newsletter contains updates of our work in education, housing, climate justice and transportation justice as well as [...]

Best Practices for Parent Engagement in Local Control Funding Formula   best_practices_for_parent_engagement_-_lcff

Public Advocates released this report on Nov. 20, 2014, documenting the extent of required “service hours” in California’s charter schools. The report explains why the practice is illegal and [...]

More than forty groups have called upon MTC and ABAG to incorporate key elements of the “Equity, Environment and Jobs” Scenario into the final Plan Bay Area. On September 23, 2015 wrote a letter [...]

This is Metro Equity program update of advocacy and litigation prepared in June 2016. Metro Equity Program Update June 2016

This is a comment letter on the Facebook Campus Expansion DEIR. BennerKarner_FacebookDEIR_Comments

This is the 2012 Report Card on Plan Bay Area issued by the 6 Wins Coalition rtp_scs_report_card_6_wins_network_may_2012

Urban Habitat vs. Metropolitan Transportation Commission Issue: Transportation Justice Topic: Community & State Campaigns Case Date: March 7, 2014 BACKGROUNDThe legislation that created the [...]

This is a copy of the Marin Voluntary Compliance agreement voluntary_compliance_agreement_with_full_attachments

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: June 20, 2016 File: s234901_apr_state State’s Answer to CQE/Robles-Wong Plaintiffs’ Petition for Review to the California Supreme Court.

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: June 17, 2016 File: pa-aclu_letter_regarding__lcap_requirements A letter sent to school district and county superintendents throughout California [...]

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: June 16, 2016 Signed Settlement Agreement (SR193564xD9697) Agreement between parents represented by Public Advocates and Mayer Brown LLP and the West [...]

Issue: Climate Justice Topic: Bay Area SCS Date: June 15, 2016 By: David Zisser File: 6_wins_nop_comment_letter On June 15, 2016, Public Advocates submitted comments on behalf of the 6 Wins [...]

Issue: Affordable Housing Topic: Equitable Development Date: June 15, 2016 By: David Zisser File: oakland_public_lands_policy_sign-on_letter On June 15, 2016, Public Advocates, the Public [...]

Issue: Affordable Housing Topic: Equitable Development Date: June 8, 2016 File: jointletterjune8_2pm Letter from more than 50 organizations with members and roots in racially diverse urban [...]

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: May 31, 2016 File: cqe-rw_petition_for_review CQE-RW Petition for Review

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: May 27, 2016 File: lausd_investigation_report This document contains the determination and order by the California Department of Education regarding a [...]

Issue: Transportation Justice Topic: Community & State Campaigns Date: May 27, 2016 File: letter_to_martinez_regarding_proposed_tep Letter to cities of Contra Costa County raising hard [...]

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: May 20, 2016 By: Rigel S. Massaro File: appendix_a-_non-concentrated_district_table This table provides details on the 15 school districts studied for [...]

Issue: Affordable Housing Topic: Fair Housing Rights Date: May 18, 2016 File:  fair_housing_framework_for_san_franciscos_mission_district Fair housing framework for San Francisco’s Mission [...]

Issue: Affordable Housing Topic: Equitable Development Date: May 17, 2016 By: David Zisser File: fair_political_practices_commission_advice_letter_on_the_oakland_renter_protection_act On May 17, [...]

Issue: Climate Justice Topic: Bay Area SCS Date: May 12, 2016 File: plan_bay_area_report_card Do the Bay Area’s regional agencies make the grade in creating a Plan Bay Area for all? The 6 [...]

Issue: Climate Justice Topic: State Climate Policy Date: May 12, 2016 File: AB1550 Updated Factsheet_6_23_2016 AB 1550 (Gomez), introduced on January 4, 2016, would build on the successes of SB [...]

Issue: Affordable Housing Topic: Fair Housing Rights Date: April 29, 2016 File: comments_from_the_law_foundation_of_silicon_valley_and_public_advocates On April 29, 2016, Public Advocates and the [...]

Issue: Affordable Housing Topic: Equitable Development Date: April 29, 2016 By: David Zisser File: regional_letter_regarding_santa_rosa_rent_stabilization Letter from 6 Wins members and allies in [...]

Public Advocates is pleased to announce the release of “Keeping the Promise of LCFF: Key Findings & Recommendations After Two Years of LCFF Implementation.” This report grows out of our staff’s [...]

Public Advocates is pleased to announce the release of “Keeping the Promise of LCFF: Key Findings & Recommendations After Two Years of LCFF Implementation.” This report grows out of our staff’s [...]

PA and the ACLU of California submitted this comment letter to the State Board of Education summarizing key findings based on the organizations’ review of LCAPs as well as recommendations to [...]

Date: March 2, 2016 File: cover_from_voc2016-sponsor-document-c-april-with-link.pdf Cover From Voices of Conscience 2016

Date: March 2, 2016 File: housing_transit_and_climate_justice_updates_march_2016.pdf Housing Transit and Climate Justice Updates March 2016

Date: March 1, 2016 File: cover_from_voc2016-sponsor-document-c-april.pdf Cover from Voices of Conscience sponsor form — April deadline.

Date: February 24, 2016 File: voc2016-sponsor-document-april.pdf Voices of Conscience Celebration 2016 Sponsor Document April

Date: February 24, 2016 File: voc2016-sponsor-document-april-program.pdf Voices of Conscience Celebration 2016 Sponsor Form

Issue: Climate Justice Topic: State Climate Policy Date: February 23, 2016 By: Richard A. Marcantonio File: [...]

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: February 9, 2016 File: 2.9.16_letter.pdf Item F.1 regarding the required justification and process for allocating supplemental and concentration [...]

Date: February 9, 2016 File: foro_regional_de_desplazamiento_rojo.pdf On February 20th, the Bay Area’s regional housing and transportation agencies, in collaboration with the 6 Wins for [...]

Date: February 4, 2016 File: Public Advocates About Us Public Advocates, About Us

Date: February 4, 2016 File: publicadvocates-affordablehousing-one-sheet-final.pdf Affordable Housing One Sheet

Date: February 4, 2016 File: publicadvocates-10victories-one-sheet-final.pdf Public Advocates 10 Victories One Sheet

Date: February 4, 2016 File: programs-onesheet-final.pdf Programs Onesheet

Date: February 2, 2016 File: publicadvocates-education-one-sheet-final.pdf Education One Sheet

Date: February 2, 2016 File: publicadvocates-climatejustice-one-sheet-final.pdf Climate Justice One Sheet

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: January 8, 2016 File: coalition_comments_on_eval_rubrics_essa.pdf Local Control Funding Formula Equity Coalition comments regarding developing a new [...]

Date: December 17, 2015 File: final_funderupdate_education_emphasis_revised_v3_12_21_15.pdf Public Advocates’ education equity team continues to play a leading role on statewide efforts to [...]

Date: November 4, 2015 By: Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant Link: http://furmancenter.org/research/iri/Tepperman-Gelfant Published by the NYU Furman Center, Senior Staff Attorney Sam Tepperman-Gelfant [...]

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: October 30, 2015 File: update_on_the_local_control_funding_formula_evaluation_rubrics.pdf Equity coalition letter to State Board of Education [...]

Date: October 1, 2015 By: Richard A. Marcantonio, Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfant File: seizing_the_power_of_public_participation.pdf Seizing the Power of Public Participation

Date: August 27, 2015 File: sb_799_hill_coalition_support_letter.pdf This is a letter written by Public Advocates, the League of Women Voters, the California State PTA, Children Now and the [...]

Issue: Education Topic: School Finance Date: July 1, 2015 File: primer_on_the_lausd_lcff_spending_case.pdf 2-page document that explains the LAUSD LCFF lawsuit in simple terms