Watch C-SPAN’s national TV coverage of PRI’s recent lunch event with University of California Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, who served as the deputy assistant U.S. attorney general during the George W. Bush administ...
30 August, 2019
In their continuing war against charter schools, teacher unions have persistently argued that charter schools, which are mostly non-union, have a large negative financial impact on the regular public school system. New research, ...
24 June, 2019
One of the key traits that distinguishes charter schools from traditional public schools is the diversity of educational experiences promoted by the ability to choose, writes Lance Izumi in his new book Choosing Diversity, publish...
05 April, 2019Download the Brief This week marks National School Choice Week (NSCW) and efforts to empower parents to choose the best public or private education option for their children. NSCW comes at perfect time given recent news about stud...
24 January, 2017
Read the Magazine This edition of IMPACT includes a special feature on our new study The Clean Power Plan’s Economic Impact by PRI Senior Fellow Dr. Wayne Winegarden – released on November 1st. This important study confirms that b...
05 December, 2016Clayton Valley Charter High School (CVCHS) is an exemplar of how charter school conversion can rejuvenate a suffering public school. Founded in 1958 as Clayton Valley High School, it served part of Concord and nearby Clayton as a ...
04 August, 2016
Association of American Educators executive director Colin Sharkey joins us to discuss a new survey from their Teacher Freedom project on the attitudes of teachers one year after the historic Janus decision and shares insight on w...
09 September, 2019
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of Education Studies, joins us to discuss perhaps the most controversial education legislation in recent memory – a so-called compromise that would impose significant new requirements and restric...
02 September, 2019
Claremont Institute President Ryan Williams joins us to discuss their current work on what they see as the growing threat from identity politics and multiculturalism, their recent censorship battle with Google, and how we can enco...
12 August, 2019Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director for the Center for Education, joined the Phil Cowan Show on AM 1380 The Answer to discuss the deal recently announced between the California Charter School’s Association and the Calif...
13 September, 2019
Watch C-SPAN’s national TV coverage of PRI’s recent lunch event with University of California Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, who served as the deputy assistant U.S. attorney general during the George W. Bush administ...
30 August, 2019Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the latest issues in the debate over school choice and education reform with guest host Katy Grimes on “The Phil Cowan Show” on AM 138...
09 July, 2019
One of the key traits that distinguishes charter schools from traditional public schools is the diversity of educational experiences promoted by the ability to choose, writes Lance Izumi in his new book Choosing Diversity, publish...
05 April, 2019
Expanding and increasing funding for school choice programs, creating a stronger classroom environment for digital learning, and ensuring every child is safe at school are among the recommendations in a new “American Education Age...
12 January, 2018
Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow and Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education, made a powerful case for why all students and parents need school choice on the nationally-televised morning show “Fox and FriendsR...
07 September, 2017
Commentary
5 Warnings For Parents This Back-To-School Season
It is back-to-school time for students across America, which means that it also a time for parents to be aware of the signs that schools may not be providing the quality of education they want for their children. Here are the top ...
16 August, 2019Post-Janus, How Unions Keep Teachers Trapped
By Lance Izumi and Rebecca Friedrichs Reports reveal that 10-15% of teachers have said “No thanks” to funding unions since the U.S. Supreme Court set them free from forced unionism through the Janus decision in June 2018. While th...
05 August, 2019Read Lance Izumi’s op-ed in the Washington Times: When national teacher unions careen left
As the national teacher unions careen farther and farther left, they now brazenly proclaim politics and power as their goals, while openly dismissing quality education as their priority. Education analyst and retired Los Angeles t...
29 July, 2019