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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release July 27, 2017   CONTACT: Isabel Alegría, 510- 541-5428,  ialegria@publicadvocates.org or David Zisser, 415-828-8722, dzisser@publicadvocates.org   [...]

EdSource’s George White reports on efforts to advance approaches to combat financial fraud, waste and mismanagement in California’s charter schools. From the article… “The [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2017 California Climate Equity Coalition Opposes Proposed Restriction on Cap-and-Trade Funds ACA-1 (Mayes) Would Slow Efforts to Clean the Air, Create Jobs   [...]

July 18, 2017 – The State Board of Education has released an updated draft of the state plan for complying with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). As part of ESSA, the state must detail [...]

July 11, 2017 – A new gas tax was recently approved in California through the signing of S.B. 1. This new law will provide billions of dollars annually for transportation funding. Public [...]

Long Beach Unified is on track to misspend $124 million over the next three years. This money, which came from California’s groundbreaking education law, is meant to go to high-need students [...]

July 9, 2017 – AB 1321 has been stripped of a key provision. The provision would have called for school districts to detail how funding from California new’s education finance law [...]

July 6, 2017 – Kyle Stokes of KPCC writes about the agreement in principle reached between the Los Angeles Unified School District and plaintiffs Reyna Frias (an L.A. parent) and the [...]

July 3, 2017 – Jean Tepperman of Oakland Magazine writes about Plan Bay Area 2040–an effort by regional planning agencies to guide housing and transportation development over the next [...]