March 2006

Los Angeles Times: L A Mayor Sees Droupout Rate as 'Civil Rights Issue'

July 2005

San Jose Mercury News  State leaders decry lack of school funding

Sacramento Bee  Lottery target of suit

Sacramento Bee  Report: School fiscal woes rise

May 2005

Sacramento Bee  GOP Maps Budget Tactics

April 2005

San Jose Mercury News  In state poll, education quality seen as a problem

Sacramento Bee  Perata open to tax for schools

Los Angeles Times  Riordan To Quit Post in Education

Los Angeles Times  School Boundaries Often Line In The Sand

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Report  Bush Budget and Hispanic Education

                                                                                       Bush Budget and African American Education

Sacramento Bee  Two named to education panel

Governor's Press Release  Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Governor's Advisory Committee on Education Excellence

March 2005

Governor's Press Release  Governor Schwarzenegger Announces the Appointment of Margart Fortune as Director of Governor's Initiative To Turn Around Failing Schools

Los Angeles Times  Nearly Half of Black, Latinos Drop Out, School Study Shows

Los Angeles Times  Schools' Dropout Remedy: Get Small

Los Angeles Times  Staying the course at L.A.'s Urban High Schools

Los Angeles Times  Cal State Seeks To Boost Its 5.8% African American Enrollment

The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University

Press Release - "Drop Outs in California: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis"