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California Politics in 2019: Not Much To Be Happy About
December is about half gone, and, as the Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz once sang, “it’s getting cold in California.” In another song from the same 1996 album Duritz also sang that it’s been “a long December and there’s reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last.” ...
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School Choice: California Looks Backwards, Florida Looks Forward
Reviewing the 2019 education landscape shows some states taking giant steps backwards, while others made great strides, and this contrast is nowhere more stark than between California and Florida. In California, the education theme was “let’s take choice away from parents and children.” The teacher strikes in Oakland and Los ...
Education
Lance Izumi Talks with the Epoch Times About Problems with California Public Schools
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of the Center for Education, recently sat down with the Epoch Times to discuss a few of the many issues plaguing California public schools.
Charter Schools
Warren’s ‘Big Fat Payoff to the Unions’ Education Plan
Recently, Senator Elizabeth Warren released her education plan titled “A Great Public School Education for Every Student,” but the scheme should have been named “My Big Fat Payoff to the Teacher Unions.” The publicity splash in Warren’s plan is her call to quadruple funding for the federal Title I program, which funnels ...
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California Student Test-Score Plunge: Common Core a Likely Culprit
The results of the 2019 National Assessment for Educational Progress, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” came out recently and California’s scores once again tanked, with one of the likely causes being the national Common Core standards and aligned curricula. The NAEP exam, which is given every two years, tests ...
California
It’s No Surprise Republicans Are Leaving Liberals To Fester In High-Cost California
It was a New York governor, not one in California, who said conservatives weren’t welcome in the state. But apparently conservatives out here are getting the message. A recent poll found that 46 percent of those who consider themselves “very conservative” have considered leaving California. Overall, the “high cost of ...
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Liberal Interests Going “All In” for Policy Wish List in 2020 Campaign
Last week came news that the California School Boards Association finally submitted its long-discussed ballot measure to the state Attorney General’s office to begin the process of qualifying it for the November 2020 general election ballot. According to EdSource, the so-called “Public School Progress, Prosperity, and Accountability Act of 2020” ...
Blended Learning
Rx for the iGen Generation: Intellectual Virtue, Not Safe Spaces
While many adults are perplexed by today’s young people, a number of important books offer insight and answers to why, according to the cover of one of them, “Today’s super-connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy—and completely unprepared for adulthood.” Members of today’s iGen generation were ...
California
Classroom Indoctrination Is Causing A Rise In Homeschooling
Watching leftist politicians such as New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio goading students to go on “strike” to protest climate change underscored for many American parents the increasing political indoctrination going on in the nation’s public schools, which will likely cause many of them to more seriously consider taking ...
California
California Globe Article on Charter Schools Features Lance Izumi
Gov. Gavin Newsom sent out a press release Wednesday announcing that he will sign “the first major overhaul to the charter schools law since its enactment 27 years ago, and will address longstanding challenges for both traditional public school districts and charter schools.” . . . . . .“’Taken together,’ says ...
California Politics in 2019: Not Much To Be Happy About
December is about half gone, and, as the Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz once sang, “it’s getting cold in California.” In another song from the same 1996 album Duritz also sang that it’s been “a long December and there’s reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last.” ...
School Choice: California Looks Backwards, Florida Looks Forward
Reviewing the 2019 education landscape shows some states taking giant steps backwards, while others made great strides, and this contrast is nowhere more stark than between California and Florida. In California, the education theme was “let’s take choice away from parents and children.” The teacher strikes in Oakland and Los ...
Lance Izumi Talks with the Epoch Times About Problems with California Public Schools
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of the Center for Education, recently sat down with the Epoch Times to discuss a few of the many issues plaguing California public schools.
Warren’s ‘Big Fat Payoff to the Unions’ Education Plan
Recently, Senator Elizabeth Warren released her education plan titled “A Great Public School Education for Every Student,” but the scheme should have been named “My Big Fat Payoff to the Teacher Unions.” The publicity splash in Warren’s plan is her call to quadruple funding for the federal Title I program, which funnels ...
California Student Test-Score Plunge: Common Core a Likely Culprit
The results of the 2019 National Assessment for Educational Progress, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” came out recently and California’s scores once again tanked, with one of the likely causes being the national Common Core standards and aligned curricula. The NAEP exam, which is given every two years, tests ...
It’s No Surprise Republicans Are Leaving Liberals To Fester In High-Cost California
It was a New York governor, not one in California, who said conservatives weren’t welcome in the state. But apparently conservatives out here are getting the message. A recent poll found that 46 percent of those who consider themselves “very conservative” have considered leaving California. Overall, the “high cost of ...
Liberal Interests Going “All In” for Policy Wish List in 2020 Campaign
Last week came news that the California School Boards Association finally submitted its long-discussed ballot measure to the state Attorney General’s office to begin the process of qualifying it for the November 2020 general election ballot. According to EdSource, the so-called “Public School Progress, Prosperity, and Accountability Act of 2020” ...
Rx for the iGen Generation: Intellectual Virtue, Not Safe Spaces
While many adults are perplexed by today’s young people, a number of important books offer insight and answers to why, according to the cover of one of them, “Today’s super-connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy—and completely unprepared for adulthood.” Members of today’s iGen generation were ...
Classroom Indoctrination Is Causing A Rise In Homeschooling
Watching leftist politicians such as New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio goading students to go on “strike” to protest climate change underscored for many American parents the increasing political indoctrination going on in the nation’s public schools, which will likely cause many of them to more seriously consider taking ...
California Globe Article on Charter Schools Features Lance Izumi
Gov. Gavin Newsom sent out a press release Wednesday announcing that he will sign “the first major overhaul to the charter schools law since its enactment 27 years ago, and will address longstanding challenges for both traditional public school districts and charter schools.” . . . . . .“’Taken together,’ says ...
