6 Big Wins for Social Equity Network
Public Advocates is one of the creators and leading members of the 6 Wins for Social Equity Network.
Heightened Standards for Teacher Internship Programs
Public Advocates successfully advocated to increase the quality of training received by underprepared "intern" teachers.
Peninsula Interfaith Action et al. v. City of Menlo Park and Menlo Park City Council
Menlo Park agrees to welcome 1,000 units of affordable housing.
Education Advocacy to Carrot-Top Pesto: Pillar Joins Education Team
We're please to welcome back Rigel Massaro who recently returned to Public Advocates as a Policy and Legal Advocate. Rigel first arrived as a law clerk in summer of 2008.
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Blog
May 22, 2013
MTC and ABAG have heard from more than 40 organizations that key elements of our EEJ Scenario should be incorporated into the Final Plan Bay Area due for adoption in July. Managing Attorney Richard Marcantonio explains why groups focusing on public health, the environment, business, good government and more are rallying to the cause.
May 21, 2013
As a result of new policies adopted by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) in late April, students who are currently learning English will soon have teachers-in-training with substantially improved preparation and support, and parents will be better informed about teachers’ level of training.
May 17, 2013
President Jamie Studley describes why we're asking our friends and supporters to weigh in on two of the most transformative decisions our state and region will make this decade.
Our nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization has been fighting the root causes of discrimination and poverty for more than 40 years, by strengthening community voices and achieving tangible legal victories.
Weighing in on Plan Bay Area
We've submitted comment letters to MTC and ABAG on why key elements of our Equity, Environment and Jobs scenario should be incorporated into the agencies' final regional plan for the next 28 years, as part of our work with the 6 Wins for Social Equity Network.
News
May 20, 2013
Students, Parents, and Equity Advocates to Urge State Lawmakers to Adopt Governor’s Groundbreaking Education Budget
Letter to Obama: We need data on ‘highly qualified’ teachers (In the Press)
May 15, 2013
Washington Post columnist Valerie Strauss publishes letter from the 93-member Coalition for Teaching Quality—of which Public Advocates is a member—calling on President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to deliver the teacher equity report mandated by Congress last September.
Race, Space, and Struggles for Mobility: Transportation Impacts on African Americans in Oakland and the East Bay (In the Press)
May 13, 2013
A long history of overt discrimination left an enduring racialized imprint upon the geography of the East Bay. While the benefits of a metropolitan decentralization of jobs, housing, and public investment fell to Whites, discrimination in employment and housing trapped African Americans in urban neighborhoods burdened by infrastructure encroachment and divestment.
