Education
Charter Schools
Lance Izumi Interviewed on Controversial Bill Targeting Charter Schools
Board of Education Opposes Bill That Takes Aim at Charter Schools By Jack Bradley The Orange County Board of Education passed a resolution June 2 to oppose a bill that it claims would harm charter schools. Introduced by California Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell (D-Long Beach), AB 1316 will move through the State Assembly in June. The ...
Pacific Research Institute
June 3, 2021
Charter Schools
CTA and Democratic allies move to torpedo charter schools
While many California school districts have floundered during the COVID-19 pandemic, Democrats in the California Legislature are taking aim again at charter schools, which are among the few remaining school-choice options available for parents dissatisfied with the regular public schools. AB 1316, authored by Assembly education committee chair Patrick O’Donnell, ...
Lance Izumi
June 2, 2021
Education
Lance Izumi joins “The Chat” to talk education, school re-opening
PRI’s Lance Izumi, Senior Director of the Center for Education, joined “The Chat” on KFDA in Amarillo, Texas to talk about the changing face of education in California. Izumi discusses techniques to discuss education with their kids, the impact of different of COVID-19 on learning, and how children transition from ...
Lance Izumi
May 24, 2021
Blog
Newsom’s Savings Account for Students Needs to Be at the Front End, Not at the Back
In his recently released revised budget, Governor Gavin Newsom put forward a group of proposals to “Re-Imagine California’s Public Schools.” Sadly, most of these proposals will do little to raise student achievement in a public school system that was failing to do so even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps the ...
Lance Izumi
May 24, 2021
Education
Lance Izumi Featured in EdSource Response to Newsom Education Budget
What did he get right? Reactions to Gov. Newsom’s K-12 budget By Andrew Reed and Alexander Montero EdSource asked education leaders, advocates and observers to comment on Gov. Newsom’s record-level, revised 2021-22 budget for K-12 education. We wanted to know what they thought would most advance students’ recovery from the impact of the ...
Pacific Research Institute
May 20, 2021
Charter Schools
EdChoice “Big Ideas” Podcast Interviews Lance Izumi on School Choice
Lance Izumi joined the EdChoice Chats “Big Ideas” podcast to talk about one of his recent books, “Choosing Diversity: How Charter Schools Promote Diverse Learning Models and Meet the Diverse Needs of Parents and Children.” Lance also explains common misunderstandings about charter schools, breaks down the different types of charter ...
Lance Izumi
May 13, 2021
Blog
6 Factors Inhibiting Family Growth in California
California has some of the lowest fertility rates in the nation, coming in at 1.6 in 2019. The number is expected to decrease even more. One recent study projects that 25% of American millennial women will be childless, a significant uptick from historical U.S. trends. While reasons for lowered fertility ...
McKenzie Richards
May 10, 2021
Blog
Free Community College? Moi?
“A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, all the modern languages . . .” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Last week, Pres. Biden proposed to spend $109 billion to make community college free. As in many of the President’s proposals over his first 100 ...
Rowena Itchon
May 5, 2021
Charter Schools
NorCal Record Interviews Lance Izumi on Slow School Re-openings
Many California schools slow to reopen despite financial incentives, medical data supporting return to classrooms By Sarah Downey | Apr 12, 2021 With the end of the school year roughly two months away, questions persist about how many schools will be returning to in-person instruction absent a specific mandate to ...
Pacific Research Institute
April 13, 2021
California
The Phil Cowan Show Interviews Lance Izumi on School Re-openings
PRI’s Lance Izumi joins the Phil Cowan Show to talk school re-openings and COVID-19. Cowan and Lance specifically talk about Lance’s new education brief, “The Road to Reopening.” In the brief, Lance examines the latest data behind school reopenings, differences in public and private schools impacted by COVID-19, and policy ...
Lance Izumi
April 1, 2021
Lance Izumi Interviewed on Controversial Bill Targeting Charter Schools
Board of Education Opposes Bill That Takes Aim at Charter Schools By Jack Bradley The Orange County Board of Education passed a resolution June 2 to oppose a bill that it claims would harm charter schools. Introduced by California Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell (D-Long Beach), AB 1316 will move through the State Assembly in June. The ...
CTA and Democratic allies move to torpedo charter schools
While many California school districts have floundered during the COVID-19 pandemic, Democrats in the California Legislature are taking aim again at charter schools, which are among the few remaining school-choice options available for parents dissatisfied with the regular public schools. AB 1316, authored by Assembly education committee chair Patrick O’Donnell, ...
Lance Izumi joins “The Chat” to talk education, school re-opening
PRI’s Lance Izumi, Senior Director of the Center for Education, joined “The Chat” on KFDA in Amarillo, Texas to talk about the changing face of education in California. Izumi discusses techniques to discuss education with their kids, the impact of different of COVID-19 on learning, and how children transition from ...
Newsom’s Savings Account for Students Needs to Be at the Front End, Not at the Back
In his recently released revised budget, Governor Gavin Newsom put forward a group of proposals to “Re-Imagine California’s Public Schools.” Sadly, most of these proposals will do little to raise student achievement in a public school system that was failing to do so even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps the ...
Lance Izumi Featured in EdSource Response to Newsom Education Budget
What did he get right? Reactions to Gov. Newsom’s K-12 budget By Andrew Reed and Alexander Montero EdSource asked education leaders, advocates and observers to comment on Gov. Newsom’s record-level, revised 2021-22 budget for K-12 education. We wanted to know what they thought would most advance students’ recovery from the impact of the ...
EdChoice “Big Ideas” Podcast Interviews Lance Izumi on School Choice
Lance Izumi joined the EdChoice Chats “Big Ideas” podcast to talk about one of his recent books, “Choosing Diversity: How Charter Schools Promote Diverse Learning Models and Meet the Diverse Needs of Parents and Children.” Lance also explains common misunderstandings about charter schools, breaks down the different types of charter ...
6 Factors Inhibiting Family Growth in California
California has some of the lowest fertility rates in the nation, coming in at 1.6 in 2019. The number is expected to decrease even more. One recent study projects that 25% of American millennial women will be childless, a significant uptick from historical U.S. trends. While reasons for lowered fertility ...
Free Community College? Moi?
“A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, all the modern languages . . .” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Last week, Pres. Biden proposed to spend $109 billion to make community college free. As in many of the President’s proposals over his first 100 ...
NorCal Record Interviews Lance Izumi on Slow School Re-openings
Many California schools slow to reopen despite financial incentives, medical data supporting return to classrooms By Sarah Downey | Apr 12, 2021 With the end of the school year roughly two months away, questions persist about how many schools will be returning to in-person instruction absent a specific mandate to ...
The Phil Cowan Show Interviews Lance Izumi on School Re-openings
PRI’s Lance Izumi joins the Phil Cowan Show to talk school re-openings and COVID-19. Cowan and Lance specifically talk about Lance’s new education brief, “The Road to Reopening.” In the brief, Lance examines the latest data behind school reopenings, differences in public and private schools impacted by COVID-19, and policy ...