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What We’re Watching – June 12
Tim Anaya – PRI Webinar on Data Privacy During COVID-19 Crisis In case you missed it yesterday, check our PRI’s webinar featuring an all-star panel discussing cybersecurity, data privacy, and regulation during the COVID-19 crisis. Evan Harris – American D-Day Paratroopers Recreate Normandy Jump 75 Years Later Last weekend was ...
California
Attempt to overthrow Proposition 209 ignores K-12’s responsibility
While Californians are focused on surviving the COVID-19 lockdown, some state legislators are using the crisis as cover for a stealth effort to overturn Proposition 209, the 1996 voter-passed initiative that prevents government discrimination based on race and other classifications. Not only has this effort been largely hidden from the ...
Coronavirus
Distance and Online-Learning Options for Parents and Children During COVID-19
Listen to a special presentation of PRI’s webinar featuring a panel of policy experts, education specialists, and homeschooling practitioners discussing the coronavirus impact on education in the United States. They discuss the many options available to parents, how to make good decisions as to what will best meet the needs ...
Education
Lance Izumi Discusses ACA 5 on “The Phil Cowan Show”
Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the push by Democrats to repeal Prop. 209 and restore affirmative action in California (ACA 5) and other topics in higher education on “The Phil Cowan Show” on AM 1380 The Answer in Sacramento. The interview begins at ...
Blog
Racial Preferences Returning to California?
It’s said that timing is everything — it’s especially true in politics. And it’s why those who want to bring back racial preferences in California’s public education, government employment and contracting, chose the here and now to try and repeal Prop. 209, the 1996 California ballot measure that ended these ...
Blog
Remembering Those We Honor on Memorial Day
While America is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting havoc and deaths, it is easy to forget about the significance of Memorial Day. Yet, of all the nation’s patriotic holidays, none carries deeper emotion and impacts the lives of ordinary Americans more than Memorial Day. In his 2020 ...
Coronavirus
KCBS Interviews Lance Izumi on SAT/ACT Suspension
KCBS news anchors Jeff Bell and Patti Reising spoke with Lance Izumi, Director of the Pacific Research Institute, about the announcement by University of California President Janet Napolitano recommending that all 10 campuses in the UC system suspend the SAT and ACT college admission tests in favor of UC specific ...
Blog
Common Core Has Set Back Student Achievement in California
Back in 2012, I wrote a book entitled Obama’s Education Takeover that warned about the harmful impact that the Common Core national education standards would have on student achievement, especially in California. Now a just released study confirms my predictions. Pushed by a cabal including the Obama administration, Microsoft’s Bill ...
Charter Schools
Charters Are Pivoting to Online Education Better than Traditional Schools
With conventional schools shut down because of COVID-19, school officials are scrambling to provide students with education services through the use of online-learning tools. However, some types of schools are having greater success in transitioning to online education, and often those schools are charter schools. First, it is noteworthy that ...
Coronavirus
Listen to Lance Izumi Discuss Online Learning During COVID-19 on “The Freedom Line” Podcast
Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss online learning and homeschooling during the COVID-19 crisis with host Renee Giachino on the Center for Individual Freedom’s “Freedom Line” podcast. Click here to listen
What We’re Watching – June 12
Tim Anaya – PRI Webinar on Data Privacy During COVID-19 Crisis In case you missed it yesterday, check our PRI’s webinar featuring an all-star panel discussing cybersecurity, data privacy, and regulation during the COVID-19 crisis. Evan Harris – American D-Day Paratroopers Recreate Normandy Jump 75 Years Later Last weekend was ...
Attempt to overthrow Proposition 209 ignores K-12’s responsibility
While Californians are focused on surviving the COVID-19 lockdown, some state legislators are using the crisis as cover for a stealth effort to overturn Proposition 209, the 1996 voter-passed initiative that prevents government discrimination based on race and other classifications. Not only has this effort been largely hidden from the ...
Distance and Online-Learning Options for Parents and Children During COVID-19
Listen to a special presentation of PRI’s webinar featuring a panel of policy experts, education specialists, and homeschooling practitioners discussing the coronavirus impact on education in the United States. They discuss the many options available to parents, how to make good decisions as to what will best meet the needs ...
Lance Izumi Discusses ACA 5 on “The Phil Cowan Show”
Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss the push by Democrats to repeal Prop. 209 and restore affirmative action in California (ACA 5) and other topics in higher education on “The Phil Cowan Show” on AM 1380 The Answer in Sacramento. The interview begins at ...
Racial Preferences Returning to California?
It’s said that timing is everything — it’s especially true in politics. And it’s why those who want to bring back racial preferences in California’s public education, government employment and contracting, chose the here and now to try and repeal Prop. 209, the 1996 California ballot measure that ended these ...
Remembering Those We Honor on Memorial Day
While America is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting havoc and deaths, it is easy to forget about the significance of Memorial Day. Yet, of all the nation’s patriotic holidays, none carries deeper emotion and impacts the lives of ordinary Americans more than Memorial Day. In his 2020 ...
KCBS Interviews Lance Izumi on SAT/ACT Suspension
KCBS news anchors Jeff Bell and Patti Reising spoke with Lance Izumi, Director of the Pacific Research Institute, about the announcement by University of California President Janet Napolitano recommending that all 10 campuses in the UC system suspend the SAT and ACT college admission tests in favor of UC specific ...
Common Core Has Set Back Student Achievement in California
Back in 2012, I wrote a book entitled Obama’s Education Takeover that warned about the harmful impact that the Common Core national education standards would have on student achievement, especially in California. Now a just released study confirms my predictions. Pushed by a cabal including the Obama administration, Microsoft’s Bill ...
Charters Are Pivoting to Online Education Better than Traditional Schools
With conventional schools shut down because of COVID-19, school officials are scrambling to provide students with education services through the use of online-learning tools. However, some types of schools are having greater success in transitioning to online education, and often those schools are charter schools. First, it is noteworthy that ...
Listen to Lance Izumi Discuss Online Learning During COVID-19 on “The Freedom Line” Podcast
Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss online learning and homeschooling during the COVID-19 crisis with host Renee Giachino on the Center for Individual Freedom’s “Freedom Line” podcast. Click here to listen
