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Williams v. California: The Statewide Impact of Two Years of Implementation
(report released August 13, 2007; 2.8MB PDF)
Research Methodology

The Williams v. California Settlement: The First Year of Implementation
(report released December 15, 2005; 3.9MB PDF)

Should California schoolchildren be taught in crummy, overcrowded schools without enough textbooks and trained teachers?

How can we expect students to learn in such schools?

Far too many California children attend schools that:

• hire too many untrained teachers;
• suffer from serious overcrowding;
• are in terrible shape, with filthy bathrooms, leaky roofs, and heating and cooling systems that do not work; and
• do not have enough textbooks or rely on textbooks that are out-of-date.

Fixing these problems is ultimately the State's job.

That's why we brought this lawsuit -- to achieve decent schools for all California schoolchildren.