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Affordable Housing

Expanding access to opportunity in suburban communities and ensuring equitable urban development

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Education

Advancing opportunities for learning so California public school students are prepared for college and career

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Transportation Justice

Ensuring economic opportunity in urban areas through access to affordable and reliable transit services

Bus Riders Union Administrative Complaint

Read about the Title VI complaint filed by the Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles.

Williams v. City of Antioch

Read about the recently settled lawsuit that charged Antioch police for unlawfully discriminating against African-American families participating in Section 8 housing assistance programs.

Federal Advocacy: Fully-Prepared and Effective Teachers for All Students

Read about the broad coalition of civil rights groups that has formed to fight for stronger policies to promote teacher quality and equity.

Public Advocates Pillars

We call our alumni Pillars. They are an impressive, diverse and national group. Now they have their own section of our web site.

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February 1, 2012

Public Advocates joined 37 other organizations in opposing Minnesota Rep. John Kline's draft bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

February 1, 2012

A new study claims that the era of segregation is over. Visiting Advocate Idin Kashefipour welcomes the progress we've made, but believes there is much work to be done -- especially around inequitable land-use planning practices.

January 30, 2012

Staff Attorney Sam Tepperman-Gelfant shares an exciting victory in Concord, where he and other community advocates have been deeply involved in plans to equitably redevelop the city's vast Naval Weapons Station.

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News

February 6, 2012

Managing Attorney John Affeldt is quoted on how proposed cuts in aid for home-to-school busing illustrates how the state's budget reductions and outdated funding formulas hurt disadvantaged students.

January 30, 2012
Members of the Community Coalition for a Sustainable Concord — a broad alliance of housing, labor, faith-based, neighborhood, and environmental organizations — celebrated a recent vote by the City Council to approve a visionary plan to revitalize the shuttered Concord Naval Weapons Station.
January 30, 2012

Four education experts, including Managing Attorney John Affeldt, weigh in on California Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed reforms to the school funding system.

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