Funding for K-12 Education in California

In addition to serving as a founding partner of Capitol Advisors Group, Mr. Hajela has participated as lead or co-lead counsel in several of the most prominent education cases in the last decade, including the litigation and legislative settlement of Williams v. State of California and the pending Robles-Wong v. State of California school finance case. He has extensive experience and expertise in the intersection of education law, policy and politics, and has previously worked as a litigation attorney, a legislative advocate and as a director of a school finance research project funded by the Hewlett Foundation. Abe also served as Chief Counsel for School Innovations & Advocacy. Mr. Hajela has served as General Counsel for the California School Boards Association, Legal Counsel for the San Francisco Unified School District, and as a litigation attorney for the Sacramento firm of Olson, Hagel and Fishburn. He earned his juris doctorate in 1994 at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco after graduating from U.C. San Diego with degrees in History and Political Science.