CQE v. CA​ was a state constitutional challenge to the underfunding of CA’s public schools. The challenge came from an unprecedented coalition, Public Advocates, community-based organizations including Campaign for Quality Education, CFJ, PICO, ACCE , and low-income parents and students. With California ranked with the bottom five states in the country in the adequacy of school funding, the case attacked a system that provided little more than an obligation for Districts to open the schoolhouse doors. A divided appeals court panel found no right to a quality education under the California constitution, despite the earlier Serrano decision and a divided California Supreme Court refused to hear the case given the recent enactment of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) legislation. Many of the claims for more rational and equitable spending in the case became law in LCFF in 2013.