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California Globe Highlights PRI Analysis of “Patriotic Education” Initiative
Making the Case for Patriotic Education in American Schools By Katy Grimes, California Globe President Donald Trump signed an executive order recently establishing a 1776 Commission to create a curriculum that teaches “patriotic education” in schools. This is not only necessary because of the lack of Civics taught in schools, but in answer ...
Free Cities
Steven Greenhut – Winning the Water Wars
This week, PRI’s Evan Harris interviews R Street Institute’s Steven Greenhut about his newly-published PRI book, Winning the Water Wars. In the book, Greenhut makes the case that California can end its decades-long water wars and meet the state’s water needs by promoting abundance rather than managing scarcity.
Blog
What We’re Watching – November 6
Rowena Itchon – Remembering Our Veterans Remembering our veterans: Ronald Reagan’s Veterans Day speech https://youtu.be/H7LkkpA9DRM Kerry Jackson – The Origins of Prop. 13 Joel Fox tells the great story of the origins of Proposition 13. When voters apparently rejected the “split roll” Proposition 15 on Election Day, they showed that ...
Featured
Is It Over Yet? The PRI All Stars on Election 2020
Now that all the votes have been cast, the PRI All Stars are back with a special election wrap-up. They break down the night’s biggest winners and losers and the night’s biggest surprise results, discuss what the national election trends mean for California, analyze the results of the big state ...
Blog
Spreading Successful Patriotic Education Programs
By Lance Izumi and McKenzie Richards President Trump has signed an executive order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education and to “encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history.” When that commission gets down to work, there are numerous examples of successful curricula ...
Blog
What We’re Watching – October 30
Tim Anaya – Winning the Water Wars In case you missed it earlier this week, watch PRI’s webinar from earlier this week with Steven Greenhut discussing his new PRI book, Winning the Water Wars. Rowena Itchon – Remembering Bush v. Gore 20 Years Ago in History: How the U.S. Supreme ...
California
Proposition 16 backers are spending big to reinstitutionalize racial discrimination
By Lawrence Siskind In 1996, California voters amended their Constitution by enacting Proposition 209. It reads: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin … in education or public employment or contracting.” ...
Education
Watch PRI’s Rowena Itchon in KPIX story on Debate Over Affirmative Action
PRI’s Rowena Itchon was featured in a KPIX story discussing her recent Right by the Bay blog post on the debate over the future of affirmative action in California. Watch her comments below . . .
Podcast
PRI All Stars Election 2020 Preview
Our PRI All Stars are back with an election preview. On deck are Tim Anaya, senior director of communications, Kerry Jackson, fellow in California Reform, Evan Harris, manager of media relations and outreach, and Rowena Itchon, senior vice president. We discuss the California propositions, the presidential race, and of course ...
Podcast
Michael Anton – The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return
Michael Anton, lecturer in politics and research fellow at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center in Washington, DC and former national security official in the Bush (43) and Trump administrations, joins PRI senior fellow Steve Hayward for a discussion of Anton’s new book, “The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return”.
California Globe Highlights PRI Analysis of “Patriotic Education” Initiative
Making the Case for Patriotic Education in American Schools By Katy Grimes, California Globe President Donald Trump signed an executive order recently establishing a 1776 Commission to create a curriculum that teaches “patriotic education” in schools. This is not only necessary because of the lack of Civics taught in schools, but in answer ...
Steven Greenhut – Winning the Water Wars
This week, PRI’s Evan Harris interviews R Street Institute’s Steven Greenhut about his newly-published PRI book, Winning the Water Wars. In the book, Greenhut makes the case that California can end its decades-long water wars and meet the state’s water needs by promoting abundance rather than managing scarcity.
What We’re Watching – November 6
Rowena Itchon – Remembering Our Veterans Remembering our veterans: Ronald Reagan’s Veterans Day speech https://youtu.be/H7LkkpA9DRM Kerry Jackson – The Origins of Prop. 13 Joel Fox tells the great story of the origins of Proposition 13. When voters apparently rejected the “split roll” Proposition 15 on Election Day, they showed that ...
Is It Over Yet? The PRI All Stars on Election 2020
Now that all the votes have been cast, the PRI All Stars are back with a special election wrap-up. They break down the night’s biggest winners and losers and the night’s biggest surprise results, discuss what the national election trends mean for California, analyze the results of the big state ...
Spreading Successful Patriotic Education Programs
By Lance Izumi and McKenzie Richards President Trump has signed an executive order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education and to “encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history.” When that commission gets down to work, there are numerous examples of successful curricula ...
What We’re Watching – October 30
Tim Anaya – Winning the Water Wars In case you missed it earlier this week, watch PRI’s webinar from earlier this week with Steven Greenhut discussing his new PRI book, Winning the Water Wars. Rowena Itchon – Remembering Bush v. Gore 20 Years Ago in History: How the U.S. Supreme ...
Proposition 16 backers are spending big to reinstitutionalize racial discrimination
By Lawrence Siskind In 1996, California voters amended their Constitution by enacting Proposition 209. It reads: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin … in education or public employment or contracting.” ...
Watch PRI’s Rowena Itchon in KPIX story on Debate Over Affirmative Action
PRI’s Rowena Itchon was featured in a KPIX story discussing her recent Right by the Bay blog post on the debate over the future of affirmative action in California. Watch her comments below . . .
PRI All Stars Election 2020 Preview
Our PRI All Stars are back with an election preview. On deck are Tim Anaya, senior director of communications, Kerry Jackson, fellow in California Reform, Evan Harris, manager of media relations and outreach, and Rowena Itchon, senior vice president. We discuss the California propositions, the presidential race, and of course ...
Michael Anton – The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return
Michael Anton, lecturer in politics and research fellow at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center in Washington, DC and former national security official in the Bush (43) and Trump administrations, joins PRI senior fellow Steve Hayward for a discussion of Anton’s new book, “The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return”.
