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Lance Izumi: What CA Can Do to Expand School Choice
Watch PRI’s Lance Izumi discusses what California can do to expand school choice during PRI’s celebration of National School Choice Week in Sacramento....
January 27, 2018Lance Izumi
New “American Education Agenda” Recommends 15 Federal, State, Local Education Reforms
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...
January 12, 2018Lance Izumi
School Choice Can Protect Kids From Classroom Indoctrination
Progressive educators are launching new offensives in the nation’s culture wars. Washington State, for example, has put a sex-education curriculum, developed in part by Planned Parenthood, on its approved list, which has cau...
November 20, 2017Lance Izumi

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 ...
April 19, 2018Lance Izumi
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 ind...
March 08, 2018Lance Izumi
Trump’s Education Budget Puts Students Ahead Of Special Interests
President Trump’s proposed 2019 education budget, with its elimination of 29 ineffective or duplicative programs, drew howls from special-interest groups. Despite their hyperventilation, the president rightly focuses his spe...
March 05, 2018Lance Izumi

New “American Education Agenda” Recommends 15 Federal, State, Local Education Reforms
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...
January 12, 2018Lance Izumi
Capital Ideas: Lots Of Reasons To Celebrate National School Choice Week
Download 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...
January 24, 2017Lance Izumi
Impact Magazine Winter 2016
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...
December 05, 2016Pacific Research Institute

Free Markets and Education: The Answer is Freedom
The United States’ K-12 system of education must evolve to keep pace with the changing global economy. America has consistently taken a leading role in the world in a broad range of industries because we have avoided each century’...
April 04, 2018Damon Dunn
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 ...
March 16, 2018Lance Izumi
Education for the Future
When the Pacific Research Institute asked business leaders about what makes California an unattractive state to locate or expand their companies, one respondent said, “Every single thing you can imagine.” And, among the many comp...
March 07, 2018Lance Izumi

Lance Izumi – What Can California Do to Expand School Choice?
As we mark National School Choice Week, Lance Izumi, Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education, and Koret Senior Fellow in Education, joins us to discuss his new “American Education Agenda” and his recommendations to policymak...
January 22, 2018Pacific Research Institute
What’s Next for California Education
Former teacher, Democrat Assemblyman, and Assembly Education Committee Chairman Patrick O’Donnell of Long Beach joins Tim Anaya at the State Capitol to talk about the state of California education, including STEM education, career...
August 07, 2017Pacific Research Institute
The Corrupt Classroom
Lance Izumi talks about his new book The Corrupt Classroom, revealing how bias, indoctrination, violence, and social engineering show why America needs school choice....
July 25, 2017Pacific Research Institute

Lance Izumi Discusses The Corrupt Classroom on Point of View Radio
Listen to PRI’s Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education and Senior Director of the Center for Education, discuss his book The Corrupt Classroom with host Kerby Anderson on the nationally-syndicated “Point of View...
March 30, 2018Pacific Research Institute
Listen to Lance Izumi on The David Webb Show
Listen to PRI’s Lance Izumi discuss the recent case of a Southern California teacher who was fired for disparaging the military in the classroom with guest host Jonathan Gilliam on “THe David Webb Show” on Sirius...
March 23, 2018Pacific Research Institute
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 ...
March 23, 2018Lance Izumi

Lance Izumi discusses his new book on Fox and Friends
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...
September 07, 2017Lance Izumi
Just Released: The Corrupt Classroom
NEW BOOK RELEASE THE CORRUPT CLASSROOM: BIAS, INDOCTRINATION, VIOLENCE, AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING SHOW WHY AMERICA NEEDS SCHOOL CHOICE As Lance Izumi writes in his new book, America’s public schools are becoming increasingly politici...
August 08, 2017Lance T. izumi