California

California Budget Project (CBP)

The California Budget Project describes itself as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. It aims to serve as an information and analysis resource on a variety of issues, including education, to the media, policymakers, and state and local constituency groups in order to affect policy relating to low- and middle-income Californians. To that end, the Project conducts independent fiscal and policy analysis, provides public education, and collaborates with other organizations. The CBP presents testimony, written reports, and briefing materials to state and local policymakers and makes briefs, reports, and a quarterly newsletter, Budget Watch, available to the public.

Executive Director: Jean Ross
921 11th Street, Suite 502
Sacramento, CA 95814-2820
Phone: (916) 444-0500
Fax: (916) 444-0172
cbp@cbp.org

California Tomorrow

California Tomorrow, established in 1984, states that its mission is to facilitate institutional change and promote policies that build upon diversity and equity in schools and the community. The organization strives to meet its goals by monitoring and analyzing the status of equity, publicizing matters of exclusion, and producing informational materials in order to engage people, organizations, and communities in formulating new solutions. They identify and design new models of practice for a diverse society as well as provide the guidance and support needed to implement these models. California Tomorrow is also involved in advocacy.

1904 Franklin Street, Suite 300
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 496-0220
Fax: (510) 496-0225
Ct411@californiatomorrow.org

EdSource

EdSource was originally established as the California Coalition for Fair School Finance in 1977 by the California Parent Teacher Association, the League of Women Voters of California, and the American Association of University Women, California chapter. Their goal was to establish a neutral, balanced, reliable source of information to explain California’s Serrano v. Priest court decision mandating equity of funding among all the state’s school districts. It describes itself as an independent, impartial, not-for-profit organization, whose mission is to clarify complex education issues and to promote thoughtful decisions about public school improvement.

4151 Middlefield Rd., Suite 100
Palo Alto, CA 94303-4743
Phone: (650) 857-9604
Fax: (650) 857-9618
edsource@edsource.org

Los Angeles County Alliance for Student Achievement (formerly LEARN and LAAMP)

The Los Angeles County Alliance for Student Achievement was created in 2000 from a merger of the Los Angeles Educational Alliance for Restructuring Now (LEARN) and the Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project (LAAMP), two education-reform organizations. The antecedent organizations worked to improve student achievement, one by making schools more autonomous and more accountable, the other by creating stable learning communities. The Alliance says that it has assumed the reform agendas of both LEARN AND LAAMP and added more overt public engagement and research to further the goal of school reform.

The Alliance is the Los Angeles affiliate of the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, which describes itself as a national network of school reformers striving to create high-quality schools that ensure educational success for all urban young people.

President and CEO: Sonia Hernandez
523 West Sixth Street, Suite 1234
Los Angeles, California 90014
Phone: (213) 943-4930
Fax: (213) 943-4931
email@laalliance.org

Public Advocates

Public Advocates, a private, non-profit legal organization founded in 1971, states that its mission is to challenge and overcome the persistent, underlying causes and effects of poverty and discrimination against the poor, immigrants, and minorities in California. Public Advocates strives to bring social-justice issues to the attention of government, business, and other powerful institutions in a number of ways, including litigation, policy, advocacy, education, and coalition-builindg. The organization does policy research on the relationship between the swelling state-prison population and the decline of the California public-school system.

Managing Attorney: John T. Affeldt
1535 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 431-7430
Fax: (415) 431-1048
jaffeldt@publicadvocates.org

Public Policy Institute of California

The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), a private, nonprofit organization established in 1994, states that it is dedicated to improving public policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research. Its main focus is on research in three program areas: population, economy, and governance and public finance. Studies within these programs examine the underlying forces shaping California 's future, cutting across a wide range of public policy concerns: the California economy, education, employment and income, immigration, infrastructure and urban growth, poverty and welfare, state and local finance, and the well-being of children and families.

500 Washington Street
Suite 800
San Francisco , California 94111
Telephone: (415) 291-4400
Fax: (415) 291-4401