Education
Charter Schools
Coronavirus school shutdowns foster online learning alternatives
Along with other sectors of society, education has been greatly affected by the coronavirus, with schools closed across America. Yet, as in other fields, innovators in education have responded with learning mechanisms and models that allow students to continue to learn while the country shuts down brick-and-mortar institutions. As it ...
Blog
What a Difference a State Makes: The Future of Charter Schools in California vs. Arizona
While Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrat-supermajority in the Legislature effectively eliminated most charter-school expansion in California, the charter school landscape is much different in neighboring Arizona. When Governor Newsom signed the anti-charter-school-expansion bill into law last year, his office said that new charter schools will likely not open in ...
Charter Schools
Education: PRI’s Second Annual Policy Conference
This podcast is a recorded panel discussion from PRI’s second annual policy conference in Sacramento. The panel focuses on education. As the attack over charter schools has increased, one false narrative is that they don’t serve the needs of special needs students. To the contrary, school choice options including charter ...
Blog
Torpedoing a Successful Charter School
While the statewide assault on charter schools by politicians in Sacramento has garnered headlines, it is the effort to undermine specific successful local charter schools that really pulls at one’s heartstrings. Take, for example, Willow Creek Academy charter school in Sausalito in Marin County. Willow Creek is a K-8 school ...
California
California must do a better job of helping homeless children
By Lance Izumi and Michele Steeb As Gov. Gavin Newsom noted in his 2020 State of the State address, California had the second highest increase in state homelessness in 2019. But a newly released report by State Auditor Elaine Howle found that California public schools undercounted homeless students by at ...
Blog
What We’re Watching – The Best of PRI’s 2020 CA Ideas in Action Conference
PRI’s second annual “California Ideas in Action” conference was held a few weeks back. This year’s conference featured PRI scholars, policy experts, and real life changemakers discussing how free market ideas can address the new decade’s major challenges in California – homelessness, the future of work, education, health care, and ...
Climate Change
PRI’s Lance Izumi Featured in Heartland Institute Piece on Climate Change Education Plan
Title: California Considers Imposing Climate Change Education By Kenneth Artz A bill under consideration in the California legislature would require schoolchildren to learn humans are causing dangerous climate change, in order to graduate. A.B. 1922 would require a climate change curriculum for students in grades 1 through 6, and knowledge ...
Education
Lance Izumi Featured in Washington Examiner Op-Ed on Unions Targeting Betsy DeVos
Unions target Betsy DeVos as she defends children By Rebecca Friedrichs Union bosses have tried to run Education Secretary Betsy DeVos out of office since the day she was nominated. Why? Because DeVos champions education freedom scholarships and reductions to the federal education budget that return control to parents. Educational ...
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What We’re Watching – Leap Year Edition
Tim Anaya – Happy Leap Day 2020 Saturday is Leap Day – the one time every four years when we actually observe the date February 29th. This begs the question – what are you going to do with your extra day this year? In this video, we learn the results ...
California
Larry Sand – Opportunities to Expand School Choice
Noted education reformer Larry Sand of the California Teachers Empowerment Network talks with PRI’s Lance Izumi about opportunities to expand school choice in California despite recent legislative setbacks last year targeting charter schools. They discuss a looming Supreme Court decision that could help more students utilize education freedom scholarships to ...
Coronavirus school shutdowns foster online learning alternatives
Along with other sectors of society, education has been greatly affected by the coronavirus, with schools closed across America. Yet, as in other fields, innovators in education have responded with learning mechanisms and models that allow students to continue to learn while the country shuts down brick-and-mortar institutions. As it ...
What a Difference a State Makes: The Future of Charter Schools in California vs. Arizona
While Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrat-supermajority in the Legislature effectively eliminated most charter-school expansion in California, the charter school landscape is much different in neighboring Arizona. When Governor Newsom signed the anti-charter-school-expansion bill into law last year, his office said that new charter schools will likely not open in ...
Education: PRI’s Second Annual Policy Conference
This podcast is a recorded panel discussion from PRI’s second annual policy conference in Sacramento. The panel focuses on education. As the attack over charter schools has increased, one false narrative is that they don’t serve the needs of special needs students. To the contrary, school choice options including charter ...
Torpedoing a Successful Charter School
While the statewide assault on charter schools by politicians in Sacramento has garnered headlines, it is the effort to undermine specific successful local charter schools that really pulls at one’s heartstrings. Take, for example, Willow Creek Academy charter school in Sausalito in Marin County. Willow Creek is a K-8 school ...
California must do a better job of helping homeless children
By Lance Izumi and Michele Steeb As Gov. Gavin Newsom noted in his 2020 State of the State address, California had the second highest increase in state homelessness in 2019. But a newly released report by State Auditor Elaine Howle found that California public schools undercounted homeless students by at ...
What We’re Watching – The Best of PRI’s 2020 CA Ideas in Action Conference
PRI’s second annual “California Ideas in Action” conference was held a few weeks back. This year’s conference featured PRI scholars, policy experts, and real life changemakers discussing how free market ideas can address the new decade’s major challenges in California – homelessness, the future of work, education, health care, and ...
PRI’s Lance Izumi Featured in Heartland Institute Piece on Climate Change Education Plan
Title: California Considers Imposing Climate Change Education By Kenneth Artz A bill under consideration in the California legislature would require schoolchildren to learn humans are causing dangerous climate change, in order to graduate. A.B. 1922 would require a climate change curriculum for students in grades 1 through 6, and knowledge ...
Lance Izumi Featured in Washington Examiner Op-Ed on Unions Targeting Betsy DeVos
Unions target Betsy DeVos as she defends children By Rebecca Friedrichs Union bosses have tried to run Education Secretary Betsy DeVos out of office since the day she was nominated. Why? Because DeVos champions education freedom scholarships and reductions to the federal education budget that return control to parents. Educational ...
What We’re Watching – Leap Year Edition
Tim Anaya – Happy Leap Day 2020 Saturday is Leap Day – the one time every four years when we actually observe the date February 29th. This begs the question – what are you going to do with your extra day this year? In this video, we learn the results ...
Larry Sand – Opportunities to Expand School Choice
Noted education reformer Larry Sand of the California Teachers Empowerment Network talks with PRI’s Lance Izumi about opportunities to expand school choice in California despite recent legislative setbacks last year targeting charter schools. They discuss a looming Supreme Court decision that could help more students utilize education freedom scholarships to ...
