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Funding for at-risk youth lacks oversight, advocates say

  • 08-08-2011
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By Kendall Taggart/California Watch

More than a dozen civil rights and education organizations are contending that the California Department of Education unlawfully stopped monitoring millions of dollars in funding for low-income and minority students. The Asian Pacific American Legal Center, along with other advocates, filed a friend of the court brief Friday claiming the Department of Education has dramatically reduced the number of on-site program reviews and replaced them with off-site reviews. The advocates are concerned that school districts might use the money for other purposes. The Youth Law Center and California Rural Legal Assistance filed the original lawsuit in June 2009, seeking a court order to reinstate hundreds of canceled on-site monitoring visits. (more...) 

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