Education
California
Larry Sand – Opportunities to Expand School Choice
Noted education reformer Larry Sand of the California Teachers Empowerment Network talks with PRI’s Lance Izumi about opportunities to expand school choice in California despite recent legislative setbacks last year targeting charter schools. They discuss a looming Supreme Court decision that could help more students utilize education freedom scholarships to ...
Blog
What We’re Watching – Celebrating National School Choice Week
Tim Anaya – Celebrating National School Choice Week This week, we’re celebrating National School Choice Week, and the power of school choice to meeting the individual needs of students. Whether a student is attending a public, private, charter, or religious school or is homeschooled, only through school choice can the ...
Blog
National School Choice Week Celebrates All Types of Education Choice
This week is National School Choice Week and it is important to remember that education choice includes not just private, charter, and traditional public options, but also homeschooling options as well. My upcoming book, co-authored with the amazing Mia Giordano, tells the story of Mia’s incredible educational journey. Because of ...
Blog
New Poll Shows Strong Support for Education Freedom Scholarships
This week’s observance of National School Choice Week in California comes at a time when the movement to expand charter schools in the Golden State and increase school choice options for every student is at a particularly low ebb. Recall that last fall, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law legislation ...
Education
Lance Izumi Talks School Choice Week on The Phil Cowan Show
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of the Center for Education, talks about School Choice Week on the Phil Cowan Show on AM 1380 The Answer. Founded in 2011, School Choice Week is a national celebration and advocacy week for effective education options for children. Lance’s segment beings at the 1:28 ...
Charter Schools
Key Supreme Court Case Could Increase School-choice Possibilities In California
The week of January 27th is National School Choice Week, which is appropriate since a potentially landmark case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could have wide-ranging implications for California parents who want more education options for their children. The case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, involves a Montana ...
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What We’re Watching – January 17
Evan Harris – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Joins the Commonwealth Club of California Sec. Mike Pompeo sat down with Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group on Monday, Jan. 13 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Secretary Pompeo discussed the threats to American intellectual property rights ...
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What We’re Watching – A Royal Shocker
Tim Anaya – The Royal Shocker That Happened While Everyone Was Focused on Foreign Affairs In public relations 101, there’s the old adage of the Friday news dump – drop major news or do a document dump either during some other major event or on a Friday afternoon at 4 ...
Charter Schools
Trump’s school choice plan will help kids, and is smart politics
At a recent White House roundtable with students, teachers and policymakers, President Trump said that children trapped in failing government schools “would be forgotten no longer,” and urged Congress to pass his Education Freedom Scholarships proposal, which would improve education for America’s children. Under the president’s EFS proposal, taxpayers could make voluntary ...
Charter Schools
Lance Izumi Talks with Pioneer Institute About How Charters Are Meeting Diverse Learning Needs
Lance Izumi joins co-hosts Cara Candal and Bob Bowden from the Pioneer Institute to talk all things charter schools on the Learning Curve podcast. Lance discusses his new book, Choosing Diversity, and the wide range of both the student populations served, and the variety of learning models offered, by the charter ...
Larry Sand – Opportunities to Expand School Choice
Noted education reformer Larry Sand of the California Teachers Empowerment Network talks with PRI’s Lance Izumi about opportunities to expand school choice in California despite recent legislative setbacks last year targeting charter schools. They discuss a looming Supreme Court decision that could help more students utilize education freedom scholarships to ...
What We’re Watching – Celebrating National School Choice Week
Tim Anaya – Celebrating National School Choice Week This week, we’re celebrating National School Choice Week, and the power of school choice to meeting the individual needs of students. Whether a student is attending a public, private, charter, or religious school or is homeschooled, only through school choice can the ...
National School Choice Week Celebrates All Types of Education Choice
This week is National School Choice Week and it is important to remember that education choice includes not just private, charter, and traditional public options, but also homeschooling options as well. My upcoming book, co-authored with the amazing Mia Giordano, tells the story of Mia’s incredible educational journey. Because of ...
New Poll Shows Strong Support for Education Freedom Scholarships
This week’s observance of National School Choice Week in California comes at a time when the movement to expand charter schools in the Golden State and increase school choice options for every student is at a particularly low ebb. Recall that last fall, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law legislation ...
Lance Izumi Talks School Choice Week on The Phil Cowan Show
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of the Center for Education, talks about School Choice Week on the Phil Cowan Show on AM 1380 The Answer. Founded in 2011, School Choice Week is a national celebration and advocacy week for effective education options for children. Lance’s segment beings at the 1:28 ...
Key Supreme Court Case Could Increase School-choice Possibilities In California
The week of January 27th is National School Choice Week, which is appropriate since a potentially landmark case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could have wide-ranging implications for California parents who want more education options for their children. The case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, involves a Montana ...
What We’re Watching – January 17
Evan Harris – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Joins the Commonwealth Club of California Sec. Mike Pompeo sat down with Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group on Monday, Jan. 13 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Secretary Pompeo discussed the threats to American intellectual property rights ...
What We’re Watching – A Royal Shocker
Tim Anaya – The Royal Shocker That Happened While Everyone Was Focused on Foreign Affairs In public relations 101, there’s the old adage of the Friday news dump – drop major news or do a document dump either during some other major event or on a Friday afternoon at 4 ...
Trump’s school choice plan will help kids, and is smart politics
At a recent White House roundtable with students, teachers and policymakers, President Trump said that children trapped in failing government schools “would be forgotten no longer,” and urged Congress to pass his Education Freedom Scholarships proposal, which would improve education for America’s children. Under the president’s EFS proposal, taxpayers could make voluntary ...
Lance Izumi Talks with Pioneer Institute About How Charters Are Meeting Diverse Learning Needs
Lance Izumi joins co-hosts Cara Candal and Bob Bowden from the Pioneer Institute to talk all things charter schools on the Learning Curve podcast. Lance discusses his new book, Choosing Diversity, and the wide range of both the student populations served, and the variety of learning models offered, by the charter ...
