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PRI’s Lance Izumi Discusses NAACP & Charter Schools on Phil Cowan Show

Listen to Lance Izumi, Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss his recent article on Southern California NAACP chapters breaking away from the state and national groups to support charter schools on the Phil Cowan Show on AM 1380 The Answer in Sacramento. The interview begins at the 1:50:30 ...
Charter Schools

SoCal NAACP Chapters Break with Unions Because Charter Schools Work

While a powerful front of liberal lawmakers and groups push for a moratorium on the creation of new charter schools in California, individual chapters of the NAACP have broken ranks to support charters that are improving the education for thousands of African-American children. To end teacher strikes in Los Angeles and Oakland, local school ...
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Latest Evidence of California’s Pension Crowd-Out: Less Classroom Funding

My colleagues and I have written often about California’s pension crowd-out, or how state and local governments budgets are increasingly gobbled up by public pension payments. Last fall, PRI’s Wayne Winegarden released a new study showing that, using a more realistic accounting measure, California’s unfunded public employee pension obligations stood ...
Business & Economics

Educational Choice is Essential to a Skills-Based Economy

The skills and education of every American will form the basis of our nation’s long term success, as well as the solution to many of the most divisive issues in American politics. Issues such as wage stagnation, income inequality, unaffordable housing, and income mobility can be directly addressed through a ...
Charter Schools

School Riots Underscore Why Parents Prefer School Choice

Over the last two months, riots at public schools across the country have underscored why parents choose safer charter schools for their children. In April, ten Stamford, Connecticut high school students were charged with numerous crimes, including first-degree riot and assault on a police officer, after a riot that involved hundreds of ...
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Left vs. Left Round 2: Teach for America and the Unions

When Right by the Bay heard that Assemblyman Kevin Kiley’s vigorous defense of Teach for America (TFA) landed him in the “dog house” (the smallest office at the Capitol), we couldn’t help but be intrigued, for nothing in politics is worse than being caught eating one’s own. But we don’t ...
Charter Schools

Lance Izumi Dispels Media Charter School Myths on Lars Larson Show

Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discusses how the media is targeting charter schools as a place for rich, white kids on the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show.
Education

Lance Izumi Talks Choosing Diversity with David Webb

Listen to Lance Izumi, Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss his new book Choosing Diversity on “The David Webb Show” on Sirius XM Patriot, Channel 125. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Lance-Izumi-David-Webb-4.19.19.mp3
Education

Lance Izumi Discusses Choosing Diversity on Terry Maxwell Show

Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss his latest book Choosing Diversity on the Terry Maxwell Show on KNZR Radio in Bakersfield.  The interview begins at the 45:15 mark. Click here to listen to the interview
Education

Lance Izumi Discusses Sacramento Teachers Strike on Phil Cowan Show

Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discusses the Sacramento teachers strike on the “Phil Cowan Show” on AM 1380 The Answer in Sacramento. The interview begins at the 1:34:45 mark.
Charter Schools

PRI’s Lance Izumi Discusses NAACP & Charter Schools on Phil Cowan Show

Listen to Lance Izumi, Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss his recent article on Southern California NAACP chapters breaking away from the state and national groups to support charter schools on the Phil Cowan Show on AM 1380 The Answer in Sacramento. The interview begins at the 1:50:30 ...
Charter Schools

SoCal NAACP Chapters Break with Unions Because Charter Schools Work

While a powerful front of liberal lawmakers and groups push for a moratorium on the creation of new charter schools in California, individual chapters of the NAACP have broken ranks to support charters that are improving the education for thousands of African-American children. To end teacher strikes in Los Angeles and Oakland, local school ...
Blog

Latest Evidence of California’s Pension Crowd-Out: Less Classroom Funding

My colleagues and I have written often about California’s pension crowd-out, or how state and local governments budgets are increasingly gobbled up by public pension payments. Last fall, PRI’s Wayne Winegarden released a new study showing that, using a more realistic accounting measure, California’s unfunded public employee pension obligations stood ...
Business & Economics

Educational Choice is Essential to a Skills-Based Economy

The skills and education of every American will form the basis of our nation’s long term success, as well as the solution to many of the most divisive issues in American politics. Issues such as wage stagnation, income inequality, unaffordable housing, and income mobility can be directly addressed through a ...
Charter Schools

School Riots Underscore Why Parents Prefer School Choice

Over the last two months, riots at public schools across the country have underscored why parents choose safer charter schools for their children. In April, ten Stamford, Connecticut high school students were charged with numerous crimes, including first-degree riot and assault on a police officer, after a riot that involved hundreds of ...
Blog

Left vs. Left Round 2: Teach for America and the Unions

When Right by the Bay heard that Assemblyman Kevin Kiley’s vigorous defense of Teach for America (TFA) landed him in the “dog house” (the smallest office at the Capitol), we couldn’t help but be intrigued, for nothing in politics is worse than being caught eating one’s own. But we don’t ...
Charter Schools

Lance Izumi Dispels Media Charter School Myths on Lars Larson Show

Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discusses how the media is targeting charter schools as a place for rich, white kids on the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show.
Education

Lance Izumi Talks Choosing Diversity with David Webb

Listen to Lance Izumi, Senior Director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss his new book Choosing Diversity on “The David Webb Show” on Sirius XM Patriot, Channel 125. https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Lance-Izumi-David-Webb-4.19.19.mp3
Education

Lance Izumi Discusses Choosing Diversity on Terry Maxwell Show

Listen to Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discuss his latest book Choosing Diversity on the Terry Maxwell Show on KNZR Radio in Bakersfield.  The interview begins at the 45:15 mark. Click here to listen to the interview
Education

Lance Izumi Discusses Sacramento Teachers Strike on Phil Cowan Show

Lance Izumi, senior director of PRI’s Center for Education, discusses the Sacramento teachers strike on the “Phil Cowan Show” on AM 1380 The Answer in Sacramento. The interview begins at the 1:34:45 mark.
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