Education Equity
The Education Project provides technical assistance, advocacy support, and training to legal service projects, elementary and secondary educational institutions, other public entities, and low income individuals statewide.
The Education Project engages in federal, state, and local legislative and administrative advocacy on education issues, with an emphasis on policies dealing with immigrant and migrant education, English language learners, and parental involvement. We also participate in a number of statewide task forces relating to educational policy and provide technical assistance, advocacy support and training to parents, elementary and secondary educational institutions.
Santiago Avila-Gómez, Project Director
Santiago is a staff attorney in the Sacramento office of the California Rural Legal Assistance (“CRLA”) Foundation a nonprofit organization that provides community education, public policy advocacy, training, and technical and legal assistance to California’s rural poor. Santiago practices immigration law and engages in state legislative and regulatory advocacy relating to immigration, and elementary and secondary education. Santiago received his J.D. from the King Hall School of Law at University of California, Davis, and earned his undergraduate degree from San Jose State University.
