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Impact - October 1999
Submitted on 10.31.1999
October 1999 PRI Ideas in Action
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
Court Upholds Integrity of Prop. 227
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 10.12.1999
Proposition 227, the anti-bilingual-education initiative, passed in a landslide last year. The public-education establishment unsurprisingly responded with a lawsuit to protect a failed system that was advancing barely seven percent of California’s 1.4 million limited English proficiency (LEP) students to English fluency each year. In September, a state appellate court, thankfully, quashed these efforts.
Ipso Fatso
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 10.5.1999
In the film Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood is chasing a murderer across Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. But the detective’s rather hefty partner can’t climb the fence, so Eastwood tells him to "take a walk, fatso." That message applies to California’s ruling class, for similar reasons.
Charter Schools and the Long Road to Education Reform
Submitted by Thomas Dawson on 10.1.1999
Charter schools are deregulated public schools, free from most district and state oversight in exchange for meeting specific academic and financial standards over a fixed time period. The schools operate at public expense, and parents are free to choose them instead of sending their children to a standard public school
Turning Teachers into Agents of Big Brother
Submitted by Gwynne Coburn on 10.1.1999
While politicians proclaim that the era of big government is over, a California Assembly bill, currently awaiting the governor’s signature, will turn California school teachers into Big Brother’s home snoops.
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