Lance Izumi

Commentary

The Wisdom of Trump’s Plan to Merge the Departments of Education and Labor

While his efforts in these regard haven’t received many headlines, President Trump has put forward proposal after proposal to make the federal government’s work on education policy less costly, less intrusive, more logical, and more effective. His latest idea — a proposal to merge the U.S. Departments of Education and ...
Climate Change

How the media got the Janus decision wrong

In their stories on the Supreme Court’s historic Janus decision striking down compelled fees for non-union public employees to public-sector unions, the liberal media fumbled badly in reporting the basic reasoning behind the ruling. The case, Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), involved Mark Janus, a non-union Illinois state employee, who ...
Blog

Classroom Bias Rampaging Across America

Political bias continues to increase in America’s classrooms and curricula.  Giving parents school-choice tools is the only real solution. In the current school year, there have been disturbing cases across the country of teachers imposing their anti-Donald Trump political views on their students. In Cherokee County, Georgia, a high school ...
Charter Schools

Charter Schools are Using Innovation to Help Kids with Special Needs

This month, as many Americans celebrated National Charter School Week, charter school opponents continued to claim that charter schools discriminate against students with special needs. Yet in fact, all across the country there are charter schools that are leading the way in helping children with special needs. Charter schools are ...
Charter Schools

Are #RedForEd Supporters Hurting Their Own Cause?

Teachers have been striking and walking out in a number of states this spring, including West Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado, and now North Carolina. But Arizona—the third state to protest teacher pay and conditions—is remarkable for what it reveals about the internal workings of the organizers. Although the pay and funding ...
Commentary

Put military families first, not school bureaucracies

Recently, a coalition of military associations came out against legislation supported by the Trump administration, that would give greater school-choice options to military service members and their children. Their letter to lawmakers, sadly, puts the concerns of school district bureaucracies above the clear needs and preferences of military families. The bill, the ...
Climate Change

Bias Embedded In The Classroom

While the antics of anti-Trump teachers, such as the recent viral video of a Southern California teacher beating a President Trump piñata, make headlines, classroom bias is much more deeply embedded, especially in the Common Core curriculum. When the Obama administration pushed states to adopt the Common Core national education ...
Education

Listen to Lance Izumi on The Lars Larson Show

Listen to PRI’s Lance Izumi discuss the case of a Southern California school teacher who was fired for bashing the military in the classroom on the nationally-syndicated “Lars Larson Show”.  The interview begins at the 1:30:00 mark.
Blog

Ensuring Free Speech on California College Campuses

Recent polls show that many college students are worried about the declining state of free speech on campus. In California, the attacks on campus free speech have been fierce and increasing.  PRI’s Steve Hayward, who is currently teaching at UC Berkeley, described his front row-seat to the current clash over ...
Business & Economics

Reading The Gorsuch Tea Leaves In Key Union Case

Lawyers recently finished arguing a potentially historic workers’ free speech case before the U.S. Supreme Court and pundits are buzzing about Justice Neil Gorsuch’s silence during the proceedings.  However, Gorsuch’s views on individual liberty are clear and that’s not good news for the public employee unions. The case, Janus v. ...
Commentary

The Wisdom of Trump’s Plan to Merge the Departments of Education and Labor

While his efforts in these regard haven’t received many headlines, President Trump has put forward proposal after proposal to make the federal government’s work on education policy less costly, less intrusive, more logical, and more effective. His latest idea — a proposal to merge the U.S. Departments of Education and ...
Climate Change

How the media got the Janus decision wrong

In their stories on the Supreme Court’s historic Janus decision striking down compelled fees for non-union public employees to public-sector unions, the liberal media fumbled badly in reporting the basic reasoning behind the ruling. The case, Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), involved Mark Janus, a non-union Illinois state employee, who ...
Blog

Classroom Bias Rampaging Across America

Political bias continues to increase in America’s classrooms and curricula.  Giving parents school-choice tools is the only real solution. In the current school year, there have been disturbing cases across the country of teachers imposing their anti-Donald Trump political views on their students. In Cherokee County, Georgia, a high school ...
Charter Schools

Charter Schools are Using Innovation to Help Kids with Special Needs

This month, as many Americans celebrated National Charter School Week, charter school opponents continued to claim that charter schools discriminate against students with special needs. Yet in fact, all across the country there are charter schools that are leading the way in helping children with special needs. Charter schools are ...
Charter Schools

Are #RedForEd Supporters Hurting Their Own Cause?

Teachers have been striking and walking out in a number of states this spring, including West Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado, and now North Carolina. But Arizona—the third state to protest teacher pay and conditions—is remarkable for what it reveals about the internal workings of the organizers. Although the pay and funding ...
Commentary

Put military families first, not school bureaucracies

Recently, a coalition of military associations came out against legislation supported by the Trump administration, that would give greater school-choice options to military service members and their children. Their letter to lawmakers, sadly, puts the concerns of school district bureaucracies above the clear needs and preferences of military families. The bill, the ...
Climate Change

Bias Embedded In The Classroom

While the antics of anti-Trump teachers, such as the recent viral video of a Southern California teacher beating a President Trump piñata, make headlines, classroom bias is much more deeply embedded, especially in the Common Core curriculum. When the Obama administration pushed states to adopt the Common Core national education ...
Education

Listen to Lance Izumi on The Lars Larson Show

Listen to PRI’s Lance Izumi discuss the case of a Southern California school teacher who was fired for bashing the military in the classroom on the nationally-syndicated “Lars Larson Show”.  The interview begins at the 1:30:00 mark.
Blog

Ensuring Free Speech on California College Campuses

Recent polls show that many college students are worried about the declining state of free speech on campus. In California, the attacks on campus free speech have been fierce and increasing.  PRI’s Steve Hayward, who is currently teaching at UC Berkeley, described his front row-seat to the current clash over ...
Business & Economics

Reading The Gorsuch Tea Leaves In Key Union Case

Lawyers recently finished arguing a potentially historic workers’ free speech case before the U.S. Supreme Court and pundits are buzzing about Justice Neil Gorsuch’s silence during the proceedings.  However, Gorsuch’s views on individual liberty are clear and that’s not good news for the public employee unions. The case, Janus v. ...
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