Public Advocates
For Strengthening State Policy And Local Implementation Of California’s School Accountability System
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Amount$300,000
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Program
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Date Awarded5/12/2017
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
Public Advocates is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization. With this grant, Public Advocates will assist local community and district efforts to effectively implement the new accountability system for the neediest students. Public Advocates will provide positive examples of how the accountability system is helping students, which will encourage state policymakers to maintain and improve it.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.publicadvocates.org
Address
131 Steuart Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA, 94105-1241, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Public Advocates is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories to advance education, housing, transit, and climate equity. By engaging in strategic partnerships with grassroots groups representing low-income communities, people of color, and immigrants, the group seeks to increase their capacity to shape public policy and discourse. This is a general operating support grant. (Substrategy: Student and Community Voice)
for the Metropolitan Equity and Climate Justice program
Public Advocates focuses on increasing public transit, affordable housing, and environmental justice through work in the Bay Area at the local, regional, and state level. This grant will complement the set of grants focused on Bay Area implementation of SB375 (California’s policy for urban planning that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions). During this grant period, Public Advocates will encourage Congestion Management Agencies to increase investment in transit service levels and expanded ridership. Work will also include leading coalitions to build equity, environment, and jobs into the revised regional transportation plans and sustainable community strategies.
