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
Watch Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the college admissions scandal with host Chance Seales on “The Why” on Newsy....
18 March, 2019
As California celebrates National School Choice Week (week of January 20-26), the Pacific Research Institute today released a new mini-documentary called “Welcome to Change,” showing the power of charter schools to get even the mo...
24 January, 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, 2016In this special episode - recorded at a recent PRI luncheon in San Francisco - PRI Senior Fellow and UC Berkeley Professor Steve Hayward and UC Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo share their thoughts diversity, equality, and the atta...
17 June, 2019
Every day, charter schools play an important role in meeting the diverse needs of California’s students. PRI’s Lance Izumi, Fortune School CEO Margaret Fortune, and EdVoice’s Bill Lucia share real-life charter school success stor...
25 March, 2019
Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education Lance Izumi joins us to talk about his new book on charter schools, Choosing Diversity, which profiles several charter schools across the country that are a different as one could imag...
14 January, 2019Listen to Lance Izumi, Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss his recent article on Southern California NAACP chapters breaking away from the state and national groups to support charter schools on the Phil C...
14 May, 2019Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discusses how the media is targeting charter schools as a place for rich, white kids on the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show....
19 April, 2019Listen to Lance Izumi, Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss his new book Choosing Diversity on “The David Webb Show” on Sirius XM Patriot, Channel 125....
19 April, 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
Lance Izumi Writes About Importance of Charter Schools in TeachThought
While most traditional public schools continue to adhere to a one-size-fits-all model of curriculum, instruction, and learning, sometimes dubbed the ‘McDonaldization’ of education, public charter schools have the flexibility to im...
05 June, 2019Common Core Has Failed America’s Students
Bill Gates, a key godfather of the Common Core subject-matter standards, wrote five years ago that the national standards “will improve education for millions of students,” but a groundbreaking new study shows that Common Core has...
22 May, 2019SoCal NAACP Chapters Break with Unions Because Charter Schools Work
While a powerful front of liberal lawmakers and groups push for a moratorium on the creation of new charter schools in California, individual chapters of the NAACP have broken ranks to support charters that are improving the educa...
10 May, 2019